Applicability of the Positive and Negative Affect Scale in Chinese

Objective: To develop PANAS (positive and negative affect Scale) Method: 372 residents from community in Hangzhou were assessed with PANAS and SCL-90, which was used as criteria for validity test Result: Cronbach's α was 0 82 for the whole scale, that for PA and NA were 0 85 and 0 83 respectively The test-retest of both PA and NA wa s 0 47 Varimax-rotated factor loading for the PANAS terms ranged from 0 76 t o 0 40 The correlation between NA and GSI of SCL-90 was 0 65 Concl usion: PANAS is applicable in China