Discriminant and convergent validity of TEMPS-A[P] correlation with MMPI and the emotional-affective state following a stressful situation
| Autor: | Angelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani, Kareen K. Akiskal, Liliana Dell'Osso, Hagop S. Akiskal, Luca Rovai, Domenico Abbenante, Icro Maremmani, Gualberto Arduino, Dina Popovic, Giulio Perugi, Antonio Montagnari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Male Hyperthymic temperament media_common.quotation_subject Test validity Sensitivity and Specificity Developmental psychology Life Change Events Young Adult Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory MMPI Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Personality test Temperament media_common Discriminant validity Construct validity Reproducibility of Results Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Affect Military Personnel Convergent validity Female Psychology Personality |
| Zdroj: | Journal of affective disorders. 129(1-3) |
| ISSN: | 1573-2517 |
| Popis: | Background The temperament evaluation of the Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego questionnaire (TEMPS), in its rater-wise and its self-evaluation forms, has been designed to evaluate temperamental characteristics in clinical and non-clinical populations. The validation process is currently in progress in various countries. In order to improve this validation process we have extended the area of correlations of its self-evaluation form (TEMPS-A[P]) to MMPI, and to a special RS that allows assessment of the emotional-affective state following a stressful situation. Methods In 693 candidates applying to become cadets in the Italian Air Force we have assessed the correlation between the TEMPS-A[P] and the MMPI validity and clinical scales, and administered an emotional-affective state questionnaire (EAS-RS) after they had gone through the stressful challenge of taking an academy entrance examination. Results As regards MMPI validity scales, TEMPS-A[P] depressive candidates tend to report their symptoms sincerely. Hyperthymic candidates tend to give false answers so that others will see them in a good light. Cyclothymic and irritable candidates tend to exaggerate symptoms. As regards the MMPI clinical scales, a low level of linkage between affective temperaments and abnormal personality traits was found. As regards EAS-RS: hyperthymic temperament on one hand, and cyclothymic and depressive temperaments on the other, are characterized by counter-polar emotional states following the test; these are desirable in the first case and undesirable in the other two . Conclusions The convergent and discriminant validity of TEMPS-A[P] was confirmed. From a personalistic point of view, temperaments seem to belong to the realm of normality rather than to that of pathology, in line with their putative adaptive role. |
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