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Affective Norms for Italian Words in Older Adults: Age Differences in Ratings of Valence, Arousal and Dominance
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 1, p e0169472 (2017), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017.
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Abstract
- In line with the dimensional theory of emotional space, we developed affective norms for words rated in terms of valence, arousal and dominance in a group of older adults to complete the adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) for Italian and to aid research on aging. Here, as in the original Italian ANEW database, participants evaluated valence, arousal, and dominance by means of the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) in a paper-and-pencil procedure. We observed high split-half reliabilities within the older sample and high correlations with the affective ratings of previous research, especially for valence, suggesting that there is large agreement among older adults within and across-languages. More importantly, we found high correlations between younger and older adults, showing that our data are generalizable across different ages. However, despite this across-ages accord, we obtained age-related differences on three affective dimensions for a great number of words. In particular, older adults rated as more arousing and more unpleasant a number of words that younger adults rated as moderately unpleasant and arousing in our previous affective norms. Moreover, older participants rated negative stimuli as more arousing and positive stimuli as less arousing than younger participants, thus leading to a less-curved distribution of ratings in the valence by arousal space. We also found more extreme ratings for older adults for the relationship between dominance and arousal: older adults gave lower dominance and higher arousal ratings for words rated by younger adults with middle dominance and arousal values. Together, these results suggest that our affective norms are reliable and can be confidently used to select words matched for the affective dimensions of valence, arousal and dominance across younger and older participants for future research in aging.
- Subjects :
- Self-assessment
Male
Vocabulary
Aging
Self-Assessment
Research Validity
Physiology
Emotions
Social Sciences
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adaptation
stimulus
Chi Square Tests
Developmental psychology
experience
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Cognition
Elderly
Learning and Memory
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
discrete emotional categorie
Surveys and Questionnaires
anew
Medicine and Health Sciences
Ethnicities
Psychology
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Language
Multidisciplinary
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acquisition
Middle Aged
Research Assessment
Italian People
Italy
self evaluation
Physical Sciences
Female
Valence arousal
Arousal
Statistics (Mathematics)
Research Article
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recognition memory
Affect (psychology)
Research and Analysis Methods
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Memory
Humans
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Valence (psychology)
Statistical Methods
Statistical Hypothesis Testing
Aged
Age differences
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Reproducibility of Results
Biology and Life Sciences
Linguistics
Affect
Age Groups
People and Places
Cognitive Science
Population Groupings
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Physiological Processes
Organism Development
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Mathematics
self-assessment mannequin
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....882158f670865e4e9aebfae385bf3ab0