The Affect Grid: A Moderately Valid, Nonspecific Measure of Pleasure and Arousal
Abstract
The Affect Grid was first published in 1989 as a single-item measure of the two affect dimensions of pleasure-displeasure and arousal-sleepiness; however, over the past decade no subsequent validation studies have been published and no further mention of this potentially useful measure has appeared in the literature. In this study, scores on the Affect Grid were obtained from 284 college students and correlated with scores on the Beck Depression Inventory, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the Profile of Mood States. Factor analytic and correlational findings suggest that the Affect Grid is a moderately valid measure of the general dimensions of pleasure and arousal but has little specificity in discriminating among various qualities of affective experience.
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The Affective Grid has shown adequate reliability and validity.
“The Affective Grid assesses affect along the two dimensions, pleasure-displeasure and arousal-sleepiness, and has shown adequate reliability and validity [56].”
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- Authors
- Killgore, W. D. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Killgore, William D. Scott
- Venue
- Psychological Reports
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1998-10
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 639-642
- ISSN
- 0033-2941 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-691X
- OpenAlex
- W2074597784
- Cited by
- 64
- References
- 6
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- FWCI
- 0.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Reports (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Keywords
- pleasure, arousal, affective states, single-item measures, psychometric validation, sleepiness, depression, PANAS, Profile of Mood States, Beck Depression Inventory
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Affect, Arousal, Female, Happiness, Humans, Male, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Reference Values, Students, Reproducibility of Results
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