scale of positive & negative experience

name: _____________________________ date: _________ time period: _________ Below is a list of a dozen different feelings. Please think about what has been happening over the past four weeks (or other agreed time period) and then tick whichever of the five columns to the right of each listed feeling that indicates how frequently you have been experiencing this emotion. please use the 1 to 5 scale on the right the numbers indicate how frequently you have exper-ienced the feelings listed below

1
very rarely or never

2
rarely

3
sometimes

4
often

5
very often or always

a b c d e f g h i j k l

positive negative good bad pleasant unpleasant happy sad afraid joyful angry contented

To score, add the responses, varying from 1 to 5, for all six positive feeling items (a, c, e, g, j & l) to give a SPANE-P total. Add scores for all six negative feeling items (b, d, f, h, i & k) to give a SPANE-N total. Then subtract SPANE-N from SPANE-P to give a SPANE-B balance total.

SPANE-P =

SPANE-N =

SPANE-B =

The tables below shows the percentage of over 680 subjects scoring at or below each total.
% SPP % SPN 1 6 1 1 2 2 7 2 1 3 4 8 3 1 4 6 9 5 1 5 1 0 1 0 7 1 6 1 6 1 1 1 2 1 7 2 5 1 2 1 8 1 8 3 3 1 3 2 4 1 9 4 3 1 4 3 1 2 0 5 2 1 5 4 1 2 1 6 3 1 6 5 1 2 2 7 3 1 7 6 2 2 3 8 0 1 8 7 6 2 4 8 5 1 9 8 3 2 5 8 9 2 0 9 0 2 6 9 3 2 1 9 4 2 7 9 6 2 2 9 7 2 8 9 8 2 3 9 8 2 9 9 9 2 4 10 0 30 10 0 27

% SPB

1 9

3 7

6 5

8 4

1 1 -3

1 3 -2

1 5 -1

1 8 0

2 2 1

2 5 2

2 9 3

3 3 4

4 0 5

4 6 6

5 3 7

5 9 8

6 5 9

7 1 1 0

7 7 1 1

8 5 1 3

9 1 1 5

9 5 1 7

9 7 1 9

9 9 2 1

10 0 23

Diener, E., D. Wirtz, et al. (2010). "New well-being measures: short scales to assess flourishing and positive and negative feelings." Social Indicators Research 97(2): 143-156. The SPANE is copyrighted but may be used without permission the article above should be cited.