Validation of the Implicit Positive And Negative Affect Test (IPANAT), psychometric properties, measurement of affect regulation
Final Report Abstract
While implicit measures have gained importance over the last twenty years or so, no implicit measure of distinct emotions has been developed to date. Based on the procedure of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test, the present project aimed to develop a measure to indirectly assess the distinct emotions happiness, fear, sadness, and anger, the IPANAT for Distinct Emotions (IPANAT-DE). With this research we provided evidence for reliability and factorial validity of the IPANAT-DE. Furthermore, confirmatory factor analysis supported the hypothesized four-factor structure. Moreover, we were able to validate the IPANAT with a number of studies. Specifically, we found that the induction of negative affect via terror primes led to increases in implicit but not explicit negative affect. Moreover, relationships between implicit (but not explicit) negative affect with analytical processing, and relationships between implicit (but not explicit) positive affect with holistic processing were found in individuals with low affect regulation abilities. The present findings therefore support suitability of the IPANAT-DE to measure separate implicit emotions and validate the IPANAT with respect to its potential to measure non-conscious affect.
Publications
- (2011). Recovering from negative events by boosting implicit positive affect. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 559–570
Quirin, M., Bode, C. R., & Kuhl, J.
- (2013). An alternative to self-reports of trait and state affect: The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT). European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 30, 231–237
Quirin, M., & Bode, R. C.
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000190) - (2014). Does unconscious stress play a role in cardiovascular recovery? Stress and Health, 30, 179–187
Brosschot, J. F., Geurts, S. A. E., Kruizinga, I., Radstaak, M., Verkuil, B., Quirin, M. & Kompier, M. A. J.
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smi.2590) - (2014). Personality interacts with implicit affect to predict performance in analytic vs. holistic processing. Journal of Personality, 83, 251–261
Kazén, M., Kuhl, J., & Quirin, M.
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ jopy.12100) - (2014). Profound versus superficial coping with mortality threats: Action orientation moderates implicit but not explicit outgroup prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1–16
Quirin, M., Kuhl, J., Luckey, U., Pyszczynski, T. A., & Bode, R.
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167214536928) - (2015). Implicit affectivity and rapid processing of affective body language: An fMRI study. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 56, 545–552
Suslow, T., Ihme, K., Quirin, M., Lichev, V., Rosenberg, N., Bauer, J., Bomberg, L., Kersting, A., Hoffmann, K-T., Lobsien, D.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12227) - (2018) A Cross-Cultural Validation of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT). European Journal of Psychological Assessment 34 (1) 52–63
Quirin, Markus; Wróbel, Monika; Norcini Pala, Andrea; Stieger, Stefan; Brosschot, Jos; Kazén, Miguel; Hicks, Joshua A.; Mitina, Olga; Shanchuan, Dong; Lasauskaite, Ruta; Silvestrini, Nicolas; Steca, Patrizia; Padun, Maria A.; Kuhl, Julius
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000315)
