Validation of the Brazilian brief version of the temperament auto-questionnaire TEMPS-A: The brief TEMPS-Rio de Janeiro

Woodruff, Erica; Genaro, Larissa T.; Landeira-Fernández, J.; Cheniaux, Elie; Laks, Jérson; Jean-Louis, Girardin; Nardi, Antônio Egídio; Versiani, Márcio; Akiskal, Hagop S.; Mendlowicz, Mauro V.

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2011.02.005

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“…In contrast, the majority of studies that have developed short versions of the TEMPS-A have been conducted on university students, whereas the original short version by Akiskal et al investigated mood disorder patients and healthy volunteers, similar to the present study 4,8,10,12. Measurement invariance across different age groups and across patients and healthy volunteers is important for a questionnaire in terms of the comparability of the results and should be confirmed 20…”

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“…The subscales of the full and short versions of the TEMPS-A provide unique profiles of major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder and are very useful in clinical practice, particularly for bipolar spectrum diagnoses 7,14–16. Variants of the short version with different numbers of items have also been developed in other languages 8,11,12. The Japanese version of the TEMPS-A was translated and validated by Matsumoto et al14 and Akiyama et al17.…”

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Confirmation of the factorial structure of the Japanese short version of the TEMPS-A in psychiatric patients and general adults

Nakato¹,

Inoue²,

Nakagawa³

et al. 2016

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BackgroundThe Temperament Evaluation of the Memphis, Pisa, Paris, and San Diego Auto-questionnaire (TEMPS-A) is a 110-item questionnaire that assesses five affective temperaments. However, a valid shortened version is desired for large-scale investigations to enhance the compliance of respondents.MethodsA confirmatory factor analysis was conducted among 320 psychiatric patients and 61 general adults. The participants completed the Japanese 39-item short version of the TEMPS-A, and a portion of the participants completed the 110-item version. An exploratory factor analysis with the principal factor method and varimax rotation was conducted to identify a more suitable model of the short version of the TEMPS-A.ResultsThe confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the 39-item version exhibited a poor model fit. However, we found that the 18-item version exhibited a firm five-factor structure based on the exploratory factor analysis, and this model exhibited an acceptable model fit. It had good or acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach’s αs: 0.672–0.819).LimitationsThe majority of the subjects in the present study were patients, and the temperament data may have been affected by psychiatric symptoms.ConclusionA firm five-factor structure was not found in the 39-item short version of the Japanese TEMPS-A. Therefore, an 18-item version was proposed. This new 18-item version of the TEMPS-A might be useful for clinical applications and large-scale investigations.

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Confirmation of the factorial structure of the Japanese short version of the TEMPS-A in psychiatric patients and general adults

Nakato¹,

Inoue²,

Nakagawa³

et al. 2016

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“…The latter was labelled as "nervous temperament" in the Turkish TEMPS-A [19]. Similar findings were also seen in other cultures, including Brazilian [20] and Lebanese-Arabic [21]. In viewing the development of the original TEMPS-A, the anxious subscale was added last to the other four already validated subscales [3]; as described above, "somatic anxiety" emerged as a distinct factor, and some worry items clustered with the depressive temperament [18].…”

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Validation of a Short Chinese (45-Item) TEMPS-A in a Non- Clinical Chinese Population

Lin¹,

Chen²,

Chen³

et al. 2018

Neuropsychiatry

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We previously validated the 110-item Chinese TEMPS-A in a relatively large Chinese population, on the basis of which this study was aimed at validating a short Chinese TEMPS-A in order to facilitate its wide use in time-limited settings such as outpatient clinics. Method: We extracted 63 items from the 110-item TEMPS-A with factor loading ≧0.35. The reconstructed 63-item Chinese TEMPS-A was administered to 879 clinically-well Chinese Han population aged 16-60 years without a history of mental disorders. Results: A principal component analysis with Varimax rotation found that 45 out of the 63 items loaded onto five factors, namely cyclothymic, hyperthymic, anxious, irritable, and depressive factors. The Cronbach alphas coefficients were 0.86 (cyclothymic), 0.80 (hyperthymic), 0.57 (anxious), 0.55 (irritable), and 0.62 (depressive). Most of the affective temperaments were significantly correlated with one another. The males scored significantly higher on the hyperthymic and irritable subscales than did the females. Finally, the frequency of the dominant temperaments (defined as two standard deviations above the mean) was the highest for the depressive temperament (6.0%), followed by the cyclothymic, anxious (4.2%), irritable (2.8%), and hyperthymic (0%) temperaments. Conclusions: Our data suggest that the 45-item Chinese TEMPS-A is psychometrically comparable to its full version. Further refinement (i.e combining all the somatic symptom items) warrants future investigation.

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“…While some previous studies have used the same sample to derive and assess brief versions of measures (e.g. Woodruff et al, 2011), it has limitations. For the current study, two arousal induction tasks (hyperventilation and running) were used to evaluate the properties of the HVQ-B.…”

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Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Brief Version of the Hyperventilation Questionnaire: The HVQ-B

Sabourin

Stewart

Watt

et al. 2013

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

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The fear of arousal sensations characterizes some anxiety disorders and is a core feature of an established risk factor for anxiety and related disorders (i.e. anxiety sensitivity; Taylor, 1999). Anxiety sensitivity (AS) refers to a fear of anxiety-related bodily sensations stemming from beliefs that these have catastrophic consequences. Interoceptive exposure (IE; repeated exposure to feared arousal sensations) has been shown to decrease AS. The 33-item Hyperventilation Questionnaire (HVQ; Rapee & Medoro, 1994) measures state levels of cognitive, affective, and somatic responses to IE and arousal induction exercises more generally. The aim of the present set of studies was to develop and evaluate a brief version of the HVQ, the HVQ-B, in order to facilitate its use in research and clinical settings. In Study 1, three existing data sets that used the long version of the HVQ were combined to select the items to be retained for the HVQ-B. In Study 2, the 18-item HVQ-B was administered and its psychometric properties were evaluated. In Study 3, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed on the 18 items of the HVQ-B. The HVQ-B demonstrated excellent psychometric properties, and accounted for most of the variance of the questionnaire's longer version. CFA indicated a reasonably good fit of the three-factor measurement model. Finally, the HVQ-B was able to distinguish between responses to arousal induction exercises by high versus low AS participants. The HVQ-B is a useful tool to assess cognitive, affective, and somatic responsivity to arousal sensations in both research and practice.

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Validation of the Brazilian brief version of the temperament auto-questionnaire TEMPS-A: The brief TEMPS-Rio de Janeiro

Cited by 30 publications

References 31 publications

Confirmation of the factorial structure of the Japanese short version of the TEMPS-A in psychiatric patients and general adults

Confirmation of the factorial structure of the Japanese short version of the TEMPS-A in psychiatric patients and general adults

Validation of a Short Chinese (45-Item) TEMPS-A in a Non- Clinical Chinese Population

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Brief Version of the Hyperventilation Questionnaire: The HVQ-B

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