Adaptation and content validation of the Brazilian version of the Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory.

Objective: To translate, adapt and validate the contents of the Brazilian version of the Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory.

Methods: The process of translation and adaptation of the initial instructions and items involved five steps: (1) translation; (2) back translation; (3) correction and semantic adaptation; (4) content validation by professional experts (judges); and (5) test of final version through a verbal-numbered scale. As performance indicators for understanding, the scores of central tendency (mean) and dispersion (standard deviation) were calculated for each item in step 5.

[Brazilian norms for the Affective Norms for English Words].

Introduction: The present study translated and adapted the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) to Brazilian Portuguese (ANEW-Br) and collected emotionality measures for a set of 1,046 words in Brazilian Portuguese.

Method: A sample of 755 male and female undergraduate students used the valence and arousal scales of the Self-Assessment Manikin to judge the emotionality of 1,046 words in Brazilian Portuguese.

Results: Valence values ranged from 1.