Abstract

Perceived broad group emotional climate (PBGEC) is a perceived meso-environment emotion, which refers to individuals’ perceptions and experiences of the emotion climate when interacting with group members in daily life, and is not derived from individuals’ own emotions. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a PBGEC scale (PBGECS) for Chinese community residents and university students. A total of 1,408 residents from Chongqing completed the survey of PBGECS, the present social attitude scale, the future social expectations scale, and the social wellbeing scale, which constituted Sample 1; A total of 607 college students from Nanchang completed the survey of PBGECS and the Positive and Negative Affect Scale, which constituted Sample 2. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor structure, including positive PBGEC (PBGEC-P) and negative PBGEC (PBGEC-N). Internal consistency was strong for each factor and the full-scale (α ≥ 0.83). Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the correlated two-factor model of PBGEC and the four-factor model (including PBGEC-P, PBGEC-N, individual positive affect, and individual negative affect) demonstrated the best fit to the data, which supported the structural validity of the PBGECS. The interpretive validity, cultural validity, and population validity of the scale were also proved by examining the relationship between PBGEC and socioeconomic status, social attitude, and social wellbeing, respectively. The results show that the PBGECS demonstrated satisfactory reliability and validity, which can be used to assesses the perceived emotion climate of an individual’s surrounding environment.

Highlights

  • Groups are “the natural environment of the mind” (Caporael and Baron, 1997)

  • The results revealed that positive affect (PA) was positively associated with Perceived broad group emotional climate (PBGEC)-P (r = 0.58, p < 0.001), negative affect (NA) was positively associated with PBGEC-N (r = 0.54, p < 0.001), and PBGEC-P was negatively associated with PBGEC-N (r = −0.20, p < 0.001) and NA (r = −0.14, p < 0.05)

  • The fit of the four-factor model was significantly better than the one-factor model and two-factor model, suggesting that the PBGEC is different from individual emotion

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Summary

Introduction

Groups are “the natural environment of the mind” (Caporael and Baron, 1997). In other words, individuals’ emotional states and most aspects of their personality are fundamentally linked to group members who provide important information on how individuals can understand themselves and their environment. Development and Validation PBGEC Scale (PBGEC) guides their social attitude and social wellbeing (Keyes, 1998; Wang, 2011; Liu and Wang, 2020). Group emotions are no longer at the periphery of group and team research; it has increasingly become the center of this field (Barsade and Knight, 2015). Few studies have considered group emotions as the individual’s mesoenvironment, or the external environment that connects individuals and groups—that is, the positive and negative forces that individuals experience in their interactions with others (Paquette and Ryan, 2001). The purpose of the current research was to develop and validate a theory-based and psychometrically sound measure that captures Chinese community residents and university students’ experiences of PBGEC, and examine preliminary associations between PBGEC and social attitude, social wellbeing correlates

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