The phrase "affective scale" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, emotional measurement, or assessments of feelings and attitudes.
Example: "The researchers utilized an affective scale to evaluate participants' emotional responses to the stimuli presented during the experiment."
Alternatives: "emotional scale" or "feelings scale".
Although negative affect was mentioned by the children, we decided not to include an affective scale as it was mentioned only in conjunction with physical sensations represented by the three constructs: throat constriction, chest tightness and exhaustion.
It's a matter of affective scale — of a filmmaker's willingness (and ability) to go for the huge, embarrassing emotional responses, the sort viewers experience when they're scared out of their wits, moved to tears, charged up by the heroism of combat or even struck with awe at the beauty and terror of the natural world.
Concurrent validity was supported by moderate (r = 0.32) to strong (r = 0.70) correlations between the Facial Affective Scale and ERC items and scale scores.
Despite a strong correlation between the intensity and the unpleasantness scales, effects were weaker for the affective scale and, became statistically non-significant when VAS-intensity was used as covariate.
Trends in Environmentally Oriented Affective Scale, Word Association Test and open-ended questions intended for learning the pre-service teachers' opinions have been used in the study as a data collection tool.
Participants completed the Positive and Negative Affective Scale [PANAS; 47] and the Compassionate Love Scale [CLS; 48].
Recent work on generalized affective scales like the labeled affective magnitude (LAM) scale and labeled hedonic scale (LHS) suggest a substantial proportion of participants fail to use the entire range of generalized scales, marking only at the adjective labels.
Related to mood and affective scales, controls showed higher STM (depression) and LTM (anxiety-trait) scores.
Neuropsychological testing on admission (Table 1) revealed normal performance on cognitive (Mini-Mental Status Examination 28/30) and affective scales (Geriatric Depression Scale 3/15).
For statistical evaluation, levels of severity of mood states on the Lifechart were transformed numerically and comparison with affective scales was performed using chi-square and t tests.
Regardless, these inter-rater reliability estimates were generally high and certainly higher than most behavioral coding procedures (e.g., only 2 of 14 Specific Affect Coding System and 4 of 16 Behavioral Affective Rating Scale observations had ICC's greater than.70; Johnson, 2002) since our estimates came from the actual item-level data and not the mean scale data.
