Measures of five aspects of affective well-being at work

Validation evidence is provided for scales that measure five aspects of aff ective well-being in relation to the work context: anxiety-comfort, depress ion-pleasure. bored-enthusiastic, tiredness-vigour and angry-placid. Confir matory factor analysis is used to test four alternative structures for the items in the scales in two samples (n = 871,n = 1915). Analyses in both sam ples support one structure. The final scales have acceptable internal relia bility The unique explanatory power of each scale is suggested by partial c orrelations with theoretically related variables. Confirmatory factor analy sis indicates that the five factor solution has a better fit with the data than other first order solutions with fewer factors. Second order factor an alysis shows that two superordinate factors, corresponding to negative and positive affect, can account for the relationships amongst the five first o rder factors.