A new approach of personality and psychiatric disorders: A short version of the affective neuroscience personality scales
PLoS ONE. 2012-07-26; 7(7): e41489
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041489
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1. PLoS One. 2012;7(7):e41489. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041489. Epub 2012 Jul
26.
A new approach of personality and psychiatric disorders: a short version of the
Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales.
Pingault JB(1), Falissard B, Côté S, Berthoz S.
Author information:
(1)Research Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment, University of
Montreal, Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
BACKGROUND: The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS) is an
instrument designed to assess endophenotypes related to activity in the core
emotional systems that have emerged from affective neuroscience research. It
operationalizes six emotional endophenotypes with empirical evidence derived
from ethology, neural analyses and pharmacology: PLAYFULNESS/joy,
SEEKING/interest, CARING/nurturance, ANGER/rage, FEAR/anxiety, and
SADNESS/separation distress. We aimed to provide a short version of this
questionnaire (ANPS-S).
METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We used a sample of 830 young French adults
which was randomly split into two subsamples. The first subsample was used to
select the items for the short scales. The second subsample and an additional
sample of 431 Canadian adults served to evaluate the psychometric properties of
the short instrument. The ANPS-S was similar to the long version regarding
intercorrelations between the scales and gender differences. The ANPS-S had
satisfactory psychometric properties, including factorial structure,
unidimensionality of all scales, and internal consistency. The scores from the
short version were highly correlated with the scores from the long version.
CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: The short ANPS proves to be a promising instrument to
assess endophenotypes for psychiatrically relevant science.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041489
PMCID: PMC3406066
PMID: 22848510 [Indexed for MEDLINE]
Conflict of interest statement: Competing Interests: The authors have declared
that no competing interests exist.