Organizational psychology scholars studying Emotion typically use self-report responses to verbal questions to assess participants' current feeling or basic predisposition. These are referred to as "Measures of Affect" or "Measures of Emotion.

A frequently used measure is the Positive Affect Negative Affect Scale (PANAS).

Contents 1 Measures of General Affect 1.1 PANAS-X 1.2 STEM 2 Measures of Negative Affect 2.1 STAXI 2.2 ARS 2.3 BDHI 2.4 STAS 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Measures of General Affect

[edit] PANAS-X

The expanded version of PANAS called PANAS-X ^[1] and it includes 60 items. This questionnaire not only measures the two original higher order scales (PA - Positive Affect and NA - Negative Affect), it also measures 11 specific affects: Fear, Sadness, Guilt, Hostility, Shyness, Fatigue, Surprise, Joviality,Self-Assurance, Attentiveness, and Serenity.^[2] The internal consistency reliabilities (Cronbach's coefficient alpha) for the two higher order scales is above 0.83, however the internal reliability of specific affects is lower: Fear - median a = .87, Sadness - median a = .87, Guilt - median a = .88, Hostility - median a = .85, Shyness - median a = .83 Fatigue -median a = .88, Self-Assurance - median a = .83.^[2]

[edit] STEM

STEM = the State-Trait Emotion Measure is one of the newly constructed scales, consists of five positive and five negative emotions including, anger, anxiety, attentiveness/energy, contentment, envy, guilt/shame, joy, love, pride and sadness ^[3]

[edit] Measures of Negative Affect

[edit] STAXI

STAXI - State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory is a 44-item questionnaire and is extensively utilized in research on anger. It distinguishes between the three modes of anger expression: anger-out, anger-in and anger-control. Anger-out refers to a tendency to express anger through either verbal or physical behaviors. Anger-in or suppressed anger refers to the tendency to hold one's anger on the inside without any outlet. Anger-control refers to the tendency to engage in behaviors intended to reduce overt anger expression.^[4]

[edit] ARS

ARS - Anger Rumination Scale is the example of measuring a specific emotion, and more correctly the tendency to focus attention on angry moods, recall past anger experiences, and think about the causes and consequences of anger episodes. The questionnaire includes 19 items, and has four factor structure (factors named "angry afterthoughts", "thoughts of revenge", "angry memories" and "understanding of causes"). The reliability analysis yielded an internal consistency coefficient α=0.93 ^[5]

[edit] BDHI

BDHI - Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory is a 75-items questionnaire and was developed to assess 8 subscales: Assault - physical violence against others; Indirect - roundabout and undirected aggression; Irritability - readiness to explode with negative affect at the slightest provocation; Negativism - oppositional behavior, usually against authority; Resentment - jealousy and hatred of others; Verbal - negative affect expressed; Guilt - feelings of having done wrong. Test-retest stability was r=0.82 for the seven hostility subscales (not including Guilt). The intercorrelations among the subscales tange from 0.58 to 0.7..^[6] The more recent research identified using factor analysis only three factors: Neuroticism, General Hostility and Expression of Anger.^[7]

[edit] STAS

STAS - State-Trait Anger Scale includes 10 items and is built upon two subscales: S-Anger - state anger, defined as an emotional state or condition that consists of subjective feelings of tension, annoyance, irritation, fury and rage; T-Anger - trait anger defined in terms of individual differences in the frequency that S-Anger was experienced over time. The subscales were found to be orthogonal. The internal consistency of S-Anger scale was high (r=0.93), while T-Anger scale was divided in two additional subscales - Angry Temperament, which describes the disposition to express anger and Angry Reaction, which describes anger responses. The item-remainder correlation alpha for the T-Anger/T subscale ranged from 0.84 to 0.89 and for T-Anger/R scale - from 0.70 to 0.75.^[8]

[edit] See also

• Affect (psychology)

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/faculty/Clark/PANAS-X.pdf
2. ^ ^{a b} Watson, D., & Clark, L. A. (1994). The PANAS-X: Manual for the positive and negative affect schedule-Expanded Form. Iowa City: University of Iowa
3. ^ Edward L. Levine and Xian Xu (2005) Development and Validation of the State Trait Emotion Measure (STEM) the 20th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, April 2005, Los Angeles
4. ^ Spielberger, C.D., 1988. Manual for the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI). , Psychological Assessment Resources, Odessa, FL.
5. ^ DG Sukhodolsky, A Golub, EN Cromwell (2001) Development and validation of the anger rumination scale, Personality and Individual Differences, 2001, pp. 689-700
6. ^ Bus, A.H. & Durkee, (1957) An Inventory for assessing different kinds of hostility, Journal of Abnormal Social Psychology, 21, 343-349
7. ^ Russel, S.F. (1981) The factor structure of the Buss-Durkee hostility inventory, Unpublished master's thesis, University of South Florida
8. ^ Spielberger, CD, Jacobs, G., Russel, S., & Crane, R.S. (1983) Assessment of Anger:The State-Trait Anger Scale, in: C.D. Spielberger and J.N. Butcher (eds.) Advances in Personality Assessment, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Incorporated