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Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE)

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About this scale

There are many different ways to describe how you feel . Surely, you will know if your feelings are positive or nagative . This is considered an important dimention, and there are various scales to measure this. One is the well known PANAS, but that requires explicit author approval, which might be difficult. One of the advantages of SPANE over PANAS is that SPANE focuses on feelings, whereas PANAS also includes other states (which are not really feelings)

Sample item(s)

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Notes

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Source & citation

Diener, E., Wirtz, D., Tov, W., Kim-Prieto, C., Choi. D., Oishi, S., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2009). New measures of well-being: Flourishing and positive and negative feelings. Social Indicators Research, 39 , 247-266. Online available here .

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