Abstract
The Dualistic Model of Passion posits the existence of two types of passion, namely harmonious and obsessive passion. These two types of passion have been assessed through the Passion Scale. This scale has been validated in French and English and translated in several languages. The purpose of the present research was to translate and validate it in Chinese. To this end, 286 Chinese university students completed an online questionnaire in Chinese that contained the Passion Scale, the passion criteria, as well as measures of flow and positive and negative affect. Results provided support for the two-factor structure of the Passion Scale in Chinese and for the high reliability for both subscales ( $$\alpha_{HP} = 0. 8 6$$ ; $$\alpha_{OP} = 0. 8 2$$ ). Furthermore, correlations between the harmonious and obsessive passion subscales and the passion criteria and flow and affect scales supported the convergent and divergent validity of the Chinese Passion Scale. Overall, these findings suggest that the Passion scale can be used in future research with Chinese participants.
Highlights
A lot of research has been conducted worldwide on the concept of passion using the Dualistic Model of Passion and the Passion Scale
Correlations were run between the two passion subscales and flow and positive and negative emotions
The Chinese Passion Scale Factor Structure: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) Because the Passion Scale two-factor structure has been confirmed several times, a CFA was conducteda with MPlus 5.0 (Muthén and Muthén 2008–2011) using robust maximum-likelihood estimator (MLR) with standard errors and test of fit that are robust in relation to non-normality of observations (Marsh et al 2013)
Summary
A lot of research has been conducted worldwide on the concept of passion using the Dualistic Model of Passion and the Passion Scale (see Vallerand 2008, 2010, 2015, for reviews). Passion has been celebrated in all cultures, most of the contemporary research on passion has been conducted in the Western culture (see Vallerand 2015). The factorial and construct validity of the Passion Scale has been validated in more than 20 studies (see Vallerand 2015 for a review). The scale has been translated in several other languages such as Russian, Hungarian, and Spanish, and the research findings are consistent with those from the Western culture (see Vallerand 2015 for reviews). In line with the above, passion would appear to represent a construct that is generalizable to other cultures, including the Chinese culture
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