Escala de experiencias positivas y negativas (spane): Adaptación y validación en un contexto escolar chileno

The goal of this work was to adapt and validate the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE) in the Chilean school context. Four hundred eighty-nine secondary school students from different institutions in the north of the country participated. The descriptive statistics of the scale were analyzed and their scores compared according the gender of the students. The reliability of the scale was estimated from with the alpha and omega indices. The structure of the scale was examined by confirmatory factorial analysis. Finally, the relation between the scale and three theoretically and empirically related variables (academic expectancy, resilien ce and performance) was analyzed. It is concluded that SPANE is a valid and reliable instrument to measure the emotional experiences lived by Chilean secondary school students in relation to their studies.