In my survey, I asked the type of emotions felt by respondants during an event (positive & negative); 4 adjectives/type (Happy, satisfied, excited, dynamic & bored, angry, annoyed, asleep) with a likert scale of 5. Now, I'm confuse about how I should use them in spss. I thought about calculating the mean per type of emotions and therefore have 2 items for emotions; since I don't think its logical to combine positive and negative emotions. But I also read online about negative (reverse) items and that they need to be recoded. I would like to know if this is my case too?
Thanks in advance!