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Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: the PANAS scales.

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Two 10-item mood scales that comprise the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) are developed and are shown to be highly internally consistent, largely uncorrelated, and stable at appropriate levels over a 2-month time period.
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Toward a consensual structure of mood.

Reanalyses of a number of studies of self-reported mood indicate that Positive and Negative Affect consistently emerge as the first two Varimax rotated dimensions in orthogonal factor analyses or as…
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Openness to absorbing and self-altering experiences ("absorption"), a trait related to hypnotic susceptibility.

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The two general activation systems of affect: Structural findings, evolutionary considerations, and psychobiological evidence

D. Watson and A. Tellegen (1985) proposed a consensual structure of affect based on J. A. Russell's (1980) circumplex. The authors' review of the literature indicates that this 2-factor model…
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Exploring personality through test construction: Development of the multidimensional personality questionnaire

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Developmental cascades: linking academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing symptoms over 20 years.

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A developmental cascade model linking competence and symptoms was tested in a study of a normative, urban school sample of 205 children and indicated externalizing problems evident in childhood appeared to undermine academic competence by adolescence, which subsequently showed a negative effect on internalizing problems in young adulthood.
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Happiness Is a Stochastic Phenomenon

Happiness, or subjective well-being, was measured on a birth-record-based sample of several thousand middle-aged twins using the Well-Being (WB) scale of the Multidimensional Personality…
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Development and validation of a brief form of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire.

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Efforts to develop and validate a brief (155-item) form of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire, the MPQ-BF, which was evidenced by uniformly high correlations between the brief- and full-form trait scales and consistency of higher order structures.
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Competence in the context of adversity: Pathways to resilience and maladaptation from childhood to late adolescence

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Results suggest that IQ and parenting scores are markers of fundamental adaptational systems that protect child development in the context of severe adversity.
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Structures of Mood and Personality and Their Relevance to Assessing Anxiety, With an Emphasis on Self-Report

  • A. Tellegen
  • Psychology
    Anxiety and the Anxiety Disorders
  • 2019
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