Abstract

RODRIGUEZ, Lucas Marcelo; ONATE, María Emilia  and  MESURADO, Belén. Review of Positive Emotions Questionnaire for Adolescents. Psychometric properties of the abridged version. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2017, vol.16, n.3, pp.210-222. ISSN 1657-9267.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.upsy16-3.rcep.

Positive emotions are those emotional experiences predominating pleasure or well-being, with a positive personal interpretation of the event, bringing a cascade of subjective physiological, psychological, behavioral changes and even social level. They expand our repertoire of thoughts and actions, and strengthen the construction of personal resources in a lasting way. Positive Emotions Questionnaire (CEP) for adolescents measuring the emotions of joy and humor sense, optimism, peace, gratitude, interest-excitement and satisfaction with life. The purpose the study was, in Study 1, to assess the factorial validity of the Positive Emotions Questionnaire by Schmidt (2008) and get a brief version; the purpose of Studio 2 is to test the factor structure of the brief version by confirmatory factor analysis and evaluate the criterion validity with prosocial behavior. A good factorial validity for the original model of 65 items with 6 dimensions was obtained. The model of 65 items was reduced into a brief version of 31 items, obtaining a good fit model (χ2 / gl = 1.87 CFI = 0.92 GFI = 0.91). Regarding the criterion validity of brief version we found that the prosocial behavior was associate with joy and humor (0.34), gratitude (0.32) and interest enthusiasm (0.39) dimensions of Positive Emotions Questionnaire. The results are discussed in light of current theories.

Keywords : Positive Emotions Questionnaire; adolescence; prosociality; psychometric analysis.

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