ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Emotion Science
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1498143
HDRPS+: A New Affective Pictorial Scale Applicable to Organizational Contexts
Provisionally accepted
- 1Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
- 2Tibet University, Lhasa, China
- 3The Wardlaw + Hartridge School, Edison, United States
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Addressing the difficulty of repeatedly assessing emotions in organizational settings, especially among low-literacy employees, and the limited arousal coverage of existing pictorial tools, we develop and validate the Highly Dynamic and Reusable Picturebased Scale Plus (HDRPS+), an optimized successor to HDRPS that simultaneously measures valence and arousal. Through 3 sub-studies, we (1) constructed a database containing 20 different thematic pictures, (2) screened the pictures and anchored their affective attributes, and (3) validated the reliability and validity of HDRPS+ by conducting a 7-day diary study with 442 participants aged 13 to 69 (average age 27.06). Results showed that HDRPS+ is a low-cost, easy-to-administer tool with a wide applicability that yields high response motivation and less social desirability effects, making it beneficial for continuous measurement of individual affects in organizations. We also discussed the utility and future research directions of HDRPS+ in organizational contexts. The images of HDRPS+ alone with their criterion valence and arousal scores can be requested at https://osf.io/d4wcn.
Keywords: HDRPS+, affective measurement, Organizational contexts, Pictorial scale, valence and arousal
Received: 18 Sep 2024; Accepted: 15 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Ya'Nan Wang, Tibet University, Lhasa, China
Yanlin Liu, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, Sichuan Province, China
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