WELLBEING CENTRE
PSYCHOMETRIC TEST-1
PANAS QUESTIONNAIRE
affectivity refers to positive emotions and expressions such as joy, cheerfulness or contentment. Negative
affectivity, on the other hand, refers to negative emotions and expressions such as anger, fear or sadness.
Instructions: This scale consists of words that describe different adjectives. Find a time when you feel
relatively neutral about life—neither unusually stressed out nor happier than normal. Respond to each
emotion with 1–5 in the corresponding box on how you feel in general, not at this very moment.
1—Very Slightly or Not at All 2—A Little 3—Moderately 4—Quite a Bit 5—Extremely
Interested Irritable TOTAL OF ALL
GRAY BOXES
Distressed Alert
Excited Ashamed
TOTAL OF ALL
WHITE BOXES
Upset Inspired
Strong Nervous
Guilty Determined
Scared Attentive
Hostile Jittery
Enthusiastic Active
Proud Afraid
Scoring: Add your gray boxes and white boxes separately.
Transfer the two numbers to the corresponding boxes on the next page to interpret your results.
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PANAS QUESTIONNAIRE
Arthur has designed four profiles to help us understand the results of the PANAS Questionnaire.
Based on your PANAS scores:
� If you tend to express a lot of positive affect but express little negative affect, you are a cheerleader.
You have lots of good moods and not too many bad moods.
� If you tend to show high negative affect and low positive affect, you are a poet.
Lots of bad moods, fewer good moods.
� If you are high on both, you are a mad scientist. You have lots of strong emotions, both good and bad.
� If you are low on both, you are a judge. You don’t get lots of strong moods on either side.
You’re really steady.
None of these profiles are good or bad. They just illustrate your tendencies. In fact, no matter where you sit,
there’s a role in life for which you are ideally suited. Remember, we need poets and judges, not just
cheerleaders and mad scientists.
TOTAL OF ALL WHITE BOXES
Lower Negative Affect Higher Negative Affect
10–17 18–50
Higher
Positive
Affect
35–50
TOTAL OF ALL
GRAY BOXES
Lower
Positive
Affect
10–34
MY PANAS PROFILE IS: _________________________________
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CITATIONS & SOURCES
Pages 1 and 2: Copyright © 1988, American Psychological Association. Reproduced with permission.
Watson, David, Lee Anna Clark,and Auke Tellegen. Development and validation of brief measures of
positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 54, No. 6 (1988):
1063.
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