title: [French translations and adaptations of questionnaires of magical thinking (MIS, Eckblad and Chapman, 1983) and perception disorders (PAS, Chapman et al., 1978)].
abstract: Meehl used the term "schizotype" to refer to individuals who possess an underlying vulnerability for schizophrenia. Because of the extremely varying degrees of the schizotype's clinical expression, he recommended assessing schizotypic signs through objective measures rather than clinical judgement. In this way, Chapman et al. have developed symptom-oriented scales based on Meehl's manual, such as the Social Anhedonia (SA) and Physical Anhedonia (PhA) Scales, the Magical Ideation Scale (MIS), the Perceptual Aberration Scale (PAS) and the Impulsive Nonconformity Scale (IN). Whereas Chapman's scales of psychosis proneness are the most internationally used instruments for the assessment of schizotypy, some of them, such as MIS and PAS, were still not available in French. Therefore, the first aim of this report was to offer French translations of the Magical Ideation and the Perceptual Aberration Scales; the agreement of the original authors were obtained for both translated versions and their back translations. The second aim of our study was to establish French norms for each of these scales. The preliminary norms presented here [MIS: 19/30 (for females) and 20/30 (for males); PAS: 18/35 (for both genders)] were obtained by administering both scales to a sample of 134 French students. They are very close to those found by Chapman et al. for University of Wisconsin undergraduate students. We will confirm them with a larger sample of French students.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Le Vinatier, Bron.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dumas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saoud
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gutknecht
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dalery
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: d'Amato
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013850:Thinking; D014177:Translations
vernacular_title: Traductions et adaptations françaises des questionnaires d'idéation magique (MIS, Eckblad et Chapman, 1983) et d'aberrations perceptives (PAS, Chapman et al., 1978).