title: Assessing positive and negative experiences: validation of a new measure of well-being in an Italian population.
abstract: The aim of this study is to explore the psychometric properties of an affect scale, the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience
  (SPANE), in an Italian-speaking population. The results of this study demonstrate that the Italian version of the SPANE has psychometric properties similar to those shown by the original and previous versions, and it presents satisfactory reliability and factorial validity. The results of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis support the expected two-factor structure, positive and negative feeling, which characterized the previous versions. As expected, measures of negative affect, anxiety, negative future expectances, and depression correlated positively with the negative experiences SPANE subscale, and negatively with the positive experiences SPANE subscale. Results of this study demonstrate that the Italian version of the SPANE has psychometric properties similar to those shown by the original and previous versions, and it presents satisfactory reliability and factorial validity. The use of this instrument provides clinically useful information about a person’s overall emotional experience and it is an indicator of well-being. Although further studies are required to confirm the psychometric characteristics of the scale, the SPANE Italian version is expected to improve theoretical and empirical research on the well-being of the Italian population.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento, Universitat de Valencia (Spain).
authors.forename: Giulia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Corno
authors.affiliation: Dpto. Psicología Básica, Clínica, y Psicobiología, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana (Spain).
authors.forename: Guadalupe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Molinari
authors.affiliation: Dpto. Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamientos Psicológicos, Facultad de Psicología, Universitat de València (Spain) - Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red-Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Madrid (Spain).
authors.forename: Rosa Maria
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Baños
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001007:Anxiety; D003863:Depression; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018401:Sample Size; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*