A Study on the Relationship between Positive and Negative Affect Based on LST Model

Abstract:

As an important personality characteristic, affect can influence the organizational behavior and individual performance ^[1,2,, and affect study has obtained more and more attention in the field of organizational behavior and personality psychology. Positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) are considered as the basic structural dimensions of self-report affect experience and have been confirmed by trans-cultural studies^[4,5,. The so-called PA is the tendency of experiencing happy of an individual, while NA is the tendency of experiencing unhappy of an individual^[. Scholars have designed different schedules to measure PA and NA and study relationship between them, and have certified the dualistic structure of PA/NA, but they are mutually independent two dimensions, thus there still exists more or less relevancy and no unanimous viewpoint is formed^[8,.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 718-720)
• Pages: 2508-2512
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.718-720.2508
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Yong Zhao, Xiang Sun, Rui Rui Lian, Song Lin Chen, Li Li Liu
• Keywords: Latent State-Trait Model, Negative Affect, Positive Affect, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)

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