TITLE:
Development of Pictorial Situational Judgement Test of Affect
AUTHORS:
Nity Sharma, Yashwant Kumar Nagle
KEYWORDS:
Affect, Pictorial Situational Judgement Test (P-SJT), Positive Affect, Negative Affect
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.4,
March
16,
2015
ABSTRACT: Personality
and emotion theories conceptualize the affect which refers to differences in
how individual response to subjective aspect of emotional and motivational
states as well as the processes. Prior researches have explored the dynamics of
momentary emotional experiences by situational process; and the enduring
dispositional differences in study of traits. The current study was aimed at
developing Pictorial Situational Judgement Test (P-SJT), based on a
semi-projective approach for assessment of affect. Initially a pool of 100
items covering positive affect and negative affect dimension was developed
based on critical incidents obtained from male and female college-going
students of India. The 60 item P-SJT was evaluated with content validity. The
article emphasizes the developmental procedure of pictorial situational
judgment test of affect and the P-SJT should be useful for the researchers
interested in investigating individual differences in identifying emotional
states and traits. Limitations and directions for future research are also
addressed.