The Emotional Recall Task: Juxtaposing Recall and Recognition-Based Affect Scales

Autor/inn/en	Li, Ying; Masitah, Annasya; Hills, Thomas T.
Titel	The Emotional Recall Task: Juxtaposing Recall and Recognition-Based Affect Scales
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46 (2020) 9, S.1782-1794 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Li, Ying)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000841
Schlagwörter	Psychological Patterns; Recall (Psychology); Affective Measures; Well Being; Memory; Test Construction; Anxiety; Measures (Individuals); Affective Behavior; Test Validity; Test Reliability; Beck Anxiety Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abberufung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Gedächtnis; Testaufbau; Angst; Messdaten; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Testvalidität; Testreliabilität
Abstract	Existing affect scales typically involve recognition of emotions from a predetermined emotion checklist. However, a recognition-based checklist may fail to capture sufficient breadth and specificity of an individual's recalled emotional experiences and may therefore miss emotions that frequently come to mind. More generally, how do recalled emotions differ from recognized emotions? To address these issues, we present and evaluate an affect scale based on recalled emotions. Participants are asked to produce 10 words that best described their emotions over the past month and then to rate each emotion for how often it was experienced. We show that average weighted valence of the words produced in this task, the Emotional Recall Task (ERT), is strongly correlated with scales related to general affect, such as PANAS, Ryff's Scales of Psychological Well-being, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales, and a few other related scales. We further show that the Emotional Recall Task captures a breadth and specificity of emotions not available in other scales but that are nonetheless commonly reported as experienced emotions. We test a general version of the ERT (the ERT general) that is language neutral and can be used across cultures. Finally, we show that the ERT is valid in a test-retest paradigm. In sum, the ERT measures affect based on emotion terms relevant to an individual's idiosyncratic experience. It is consistent with recognition-based scales, but also offers a new direction toward enriching our understanding of individual differences in recalled and recognized emotions. (As Provided).
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