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Mothers (N=613) with infants who took the Differential Emotions Scale (DES) were compared in a cross-validation study by factor analysis to 957 high school and college students. Despite differences in factor-analytic technique, similarities in factor structure suggested that the DES discriminates the majority of fundamental emotions as posited by Izard.
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Robert Emde is supported by Research Scientists Award No. 5 KO5 MH 36808 and NIMH Project Grant No. 2 RO1 MH 22803. The authors wish to acknowledge the critical support of the Developmental Psychobiology Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Medical School, and wish to express their gratitude to Carroll Izard for allowing us to publish his factor-analytic results.
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Fuenzalida, C., Emde, R.N., Pannabecker, B.J. et al. Validation of the Differential Emotions Scale in 613 mothers. Motiv Emot 5, 37–45 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00993660
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