Measuring Positive Emotions

By Richard E. Lucas, E. Diener, R. Larsen. 2009

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Positive emotions and climate change (2021, unknown): “Although self-reports are a simple and ﬂexible measurement method, it may be advisable to complement them with non-self-report techniques, such as physiological measurements, to arrive at a more complete and reliable picture of emotional experience in this context [75].”
Hedonic Versus Eudaimonic Conceptions of Well-being: Evidence of Differential Associations With Self-reported Well-being (2011, result): “This measure has consistently displayed strong psychometric properties in multiple studies (see Diener et al. 1999; Lucas et al. 2003), and internal consistency in the present sample”
Measuring Lay Conceptions of Well-Being: The Beliefs About Well-Being Scale (2011, background): “This measure has displayed strong reliability and validity in multiple studies (e.g., Diener et al. 1999; Lucas et al. 2003).”
Links Between Parents’ and Children’s Levels of Gratitude, Life Satisfaction, and Hope (2013, background): “For example, Lykken (1999) reported a modest correlation (r = 0.”
New Measures of Well-Being (2009, background): “Lucas, Diener, and Larsen (2003) review measures of positive emotions, including the PANAS and other scales.”
A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Relationship Between State Affect, Discrete Emotions, and Job Performance (2012, background): “Based on these ideas, we echo previous researchers’ statements (Beal et al., 2005; Gooty et al., 2009; Lucas et al., 2003) that experience sampling methods seem to be the most appropriate way to address the relationship between state affect and performance, as they allow for numerous measurement…”
Pursuit of pleasure, engagement, and meaning: Relationships to subjective and objective measures of well-being (2010, unknown): “Positive emotions are indications that one's life is going well and often flow from living a positive and rewarding life (Lucas, Diener, & Larsen, 2003 ).”