Free test · SPANE
Shows how often you have felt positive and negative feelings over the last four weeks, scored separately. The SPANE takes about two minutes. It describes your emotional life lately and is not a diagnosis.
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The SPANE (Diener and colleagues, 2009) has 12 feelings rated from 1 (very rarely or never) to 5 (very often or always). Six are positive and six negative, and each group is shown as an average from 1 to 5. The authors also give an affect balance: positive minus negative, from -24 to +24, using the sums of 6 to 30 each. The page shows the two averages, so for the balance multiply each by 6 and subtract.
The test counts how often you felt things, not whether something is wrong. The authors publish no cutoffs. A low positive or high negative score is a reason to look at your last weeks, and to talk to a professional if it weighs on you.
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Multiply the positive average by 6 and the negative average by 6, then subtract the second from the first. The result runs from -24 to +24, and higher means positive feelings dominate.
DERS-16Emotions
DSQ-40Emotions
PHQ-15Emotions
Source: Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE): Diener E., Wirtz D., Tov W., Kim-Prieto C., Choi D., Oishi S., Biswas-Diener R., 2009, New measures of well-being: Flourishing and positive and negative feelings, Social Indicators Research 39, 247-266. © Ed Diener, Robert Biswas-Diener 2009.
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