About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
| Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 |
| Subscales | Positive affect (PA); Negative affect (NA) |
| Description | A child friendly version of the PANAS which measures mood. Parent version also available (see link). |
| Example | In the past week, to what extent have you felt… interested |
| Link | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/91559/leahhope_3.pdf?sequence=1 |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 20 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 8-14 |
| Cost single purchase | Free |
| Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .87-.94 |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | 2-factor orthogo |
| CFA | 2-factor correlated model SB-Chi-square(323)= 1151.67 RMSEA= .07 CFI= .85 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Positive Affect was significantly negatively related to State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, r= -.30 and Children's Depression Inventory, r= -.55; Significant relationships were found with personality variables: Positive Affect correlated with Extraversion, r= .41; Negative Affect correlated with Neuroticism r= .45 as measured by the Eysenck personality Questionnaire-Junior |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Ebesutani, C., Okamura, K., Higa-McMillan, C., & Chorpita, B. F. (2011). A psychometric analysis of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children–Parent Version in a school sample. Psychological Assessment, 23(2), 406–416. doi:10.1037/a0022057. Laurent, J., Catanzaro, S. J., Joiner, T. E., Rudolph, K. D., Potter, K. I., Lambert, S., … Gathright, T. (1999). A measure of positive and negative affect for children: Scale development and preliminary validation. Psychological Assessment, 11(3), 326–338. doi:10.1037/1040-3590.11.3.326 Wilson, K., & Gullone, E. (1999). The relationship between personality and affect over the lifespan. Personality and Individual Differences, 27(6), 1141–1156. doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(99)00058-6 |