A new approach of personality and psychiatric disorders: a short version of the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales.

ABSTRACT:

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

SUBMITTER: Pingault JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3406066 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature