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The Perceived Broad Group Emotional Climate Scale: Development and Validation With Chinese Community Residents and University Students

Perceived broad group emotional climate (PBGEC) is a perceived meso-environment emotion, which refers to individuals’ perceptions and experiences of the emotion climate when interacting with group members in daily life, and is not derived from individuals’ own emotions. The purpose of this study was...

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Autores principales: Yang, Xiao-juan, Wang, Xin-qiang, Liu, Jian-ping, Lai, Song-hai, Liu, Mingfan, Ye, Baojuan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8424200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34512444
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686734
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author Yang, Xiao-juan
Wang, Xin-qiang
Liu, Jian-ping
Lai, Song-hai
Liu, Mingfan
Ye, Baojuan
author_facet Yang, Xiao-juan
Wang, Xin-qiang
Liu, Jian-ping
Lai, Song-hai
Liu, Mingfan
Ye, Baojuan
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description Perceived broad group emotional climate (PBGEC) is a perceived meso-environment emotion, which refers to individuals’ perceptions and experiences of the emotion climate when interacting with group members in daily life, and is not derived from individuals’ own emotions. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a PBGEC scale (PBGECS) for Chinese community residents and university students. A total of 1,408 residents from Chongqing completed the survey of PBGECS, the present social attitude scale, the future social expectations scale, and the social wellbeing scale, which constituted Sample 1; A total of 607 college students from Nanchang completed the survey of PBGECS and the Positive and Negative Affect Scale, which constituted Sample 2. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor structure, including positive PBGEC (PBGEC-P) and negative PBGEC (PBGEC-N). Internal consistency was strong for each factor and the full-scale (α ≥ 0.83). Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the correlated two-factor model of PBGEC and the four-factor model (including PBGEC-P, PBGEC-N, individual positive affect, and individual negative affect) demonstrated the best fit to the data, which supported the structural validity of the PBGECS. The interpretive validity, cultural validity, and population validity of the scale were also proved by examining the relationship between PBGEC and socioeconomic status, social attitude, and social wellbeing, respectively. The results show that the PBGECS demonstrated satisfactory reliability and validity, which can be used to assesses the perceived emotion climate of an individual’s surrounding environment.
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spelling pubmed-84242002021-09-09 The Perceived Broad Group Emotional Climate Scale: Development and Validation With Chinese Community Residents and University Students Yang, Xiao-juan Wang, Xin-qiang Liu, Jian-ping Lai, Song-hai Liu, Mingfan Ye, Baojuan Front Psychol Psychology Perceived broad group emotional climate (PBGEC) is a perceived meso-environment emotion, which refers to individuals’ perceptions and experiences of the emotion climate when interacting with group members in daily life, and is not derived from individuals’ own emotions. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a PBGEC scale (PBGECS) for Chinese community residents and university students. A total of 1,408 residents from Chongqing completed the survey of PBGECS, the present social attitude scale, the future social expectations scale, and the social wellbeing scale, which constituted Sample 1; A total of 607 college students from Nanchang completed the survey of PBGECS and the Positive and Negative Affect Scale, which constituted Sample 2. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor structure, including positive PBGEC (PBGEC-P) and negative PBGEC (PBGEC-N). Internal consistency was strong for each factor and the full-scale (α ≥ 0.83). Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the correlated two-factor model of PBGEC and the four-factor model (including PBGEC-P, PBGEC-N, individual positive affect, and individual negative affect) demonstrated the best fit to the data, which supported the structural validity of the PBGECS. The interpretive validity, cultural validity, and population validity of the scale were also proved by examining the relationship between PBGEC and socioeconomic status, social attitude, and social wellbeing, respectively. The results show that the PBGECS demonstrated satisfactory reliability and validity, which can be used to assesses the perceived emotion climate of an individual’s surrounding environment. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8424200/ /pubmed/34512444 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686734 Text en Copyright © 2021 Yang, Wang, Liu, Lai, Liu and Ye. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Yang, Xiao-juan
Wang, Xin-qiang
Liu, Jian-ping
Lai, Song-hai
Liu, Mingfan
Ye, Baojuan
The Perceived Broad Group Emotional Climate Scale: Development and Validation With Chinese Community Residents and University Students
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title_fullStr The Perceived Broad Group Emotional Climate Scale: Development and Validation With Chinese Community Residents and University Students
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title_short The Perceived Broad Group Emotional Climate Scale: Development and Validation With Chinese Community Residents and University Students
title_sort perceived broad group emotional climate scale: development and validation with chinese community residents and university students
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8424200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34512444
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686734
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