The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of positive and negative item phrasing on affective measure. The subjects were 102 junior high school students and 68 university students. The total 152 subjects were available finally. The Lai's Personality Inventory was used for this study. The kappa consistency was applied for the statistic analysis. The findings were: (1)In general, no matter positive or negative item phrasing, the consistency of most item responses between original (positive) and reversed (negative) versions of the inventory were significantly high. (2)The consistency of item response between positive and negative test versions for reversing method by using "not" to create a negative item phrasing was significantly higher that that for the other reversing method by using negative worded (parallel) item phrasing. (3)The consistency of item response between positive and negative versions of the test was significantly varied among the 13 sub-scales (characteristics). (4)Junior high school students yielded significantly higher kappa consistency than university students. (5)Female students yielded significantly higher kappa consistency than male students. (6)The sub-scales' total scores and the test total scores between positive and negative versions were mostly significantly different. The total scores of the sub-scales measured positive characteristics were significantly higher than those measured negative characteristics. That is, the subjects tended to response "no" to the items which measured negative characteristics, and tended to response "yes" to the items which measured positive characteristics. (7)Positive and negative versions of the test did not result in differentα coefficients for all sub-scales. (8)According to investigating criterion-related validation of the inventory, the negative version of the test had more potential to predict the criterion (personality rating by people) than the positive version. Therefore, the study suggests: (1)Item phrasing in affective measures may be more important and critical than cognitive measures. (2)Personality inventories may be more influenced by the social desirability than attitude or interest scales. (3)The way of reversing scoring usually applied to evaluate the negative worded items in Likert Scales should not result in any serious test bias.