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A New Approach of Personality and Psychiatric Disorders: A Short Version of the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales

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  • Jean-Baptiste Pingault
  • Bruno Falissard
  • Sylvana Côté
  • Sylvie Berthoz

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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.

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  • Jean-Baptiste Pingault & Bruno Falissard & Sylvana Côté & Sylvie Berthoz, 2012. "A New Approach of Personality and Psychiatric Disorders: A Short Version of the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(7), pages 1-8, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0041489
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041489
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    1. Pedersen Geir & Johansen Merete Selsbakk & Wilberg Theresa & Karterud Sigmund, 2014. "Testing Different Versions of the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales in a Clinical Sample," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(10), pages 1-13, October.
    2. Monika Talarowska & Grzegorz Wysiadecki & Jan Chodkiewicz, 2022. "Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales and Early Maladaptive Schemas in Depressive Disorders," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(13), pages 1-17, June.

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