Validation of the TEMPS-A Buenos Aires: Spanish psychometric validation of affective temperaments in a population study of Argentina.
BACKGROUND
The TEMPS-A (Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego) is a 110-item questionnaire in five scales which has been translated into over 25 language versions: American, Italian (only for Interview version or TEMPS-I), French, Lebanese, Hungarian, Japanese and Turkish versions have already been validated. There are two Spanish versions, one from Barcelona, and the present one from Buenos Aires. This study represents the first attempt at validating the TEMPS-A in Spanish.


METHODS
932 clinically well subjects were studied, of both sexes (62% female) with mean+/-SD age of 35.4+/-18.1. Standard psychometric tests of reliability and validation were performed.


RESULTS
Chronbach alphas were 0.7 (depressive) and 0.8 (anxious, cyclothymic, irritable and hyperthymic). In exploratory factor analyses, the hyperthymic was distinct from the others. As expected, the depressive and anxious correlated strongly, so did the cyclothymic and anxious. Dominant temperaments ranged from 2.1% to 4.5% of the population under study, except for the hyperthymic which had a negligible rate of 0.2% (but accounted for 13% between +1 SD and +2 SD).


CONCLUSIONS
We did not examine test-to-test reliability.


CONCLUSIONS
This is the first validation of the TEMPS-A in Spanish, the Buenos Aires version with the original 110 items, with very good psychometric properties.
Vázquez
Gustavo H
GH
Department of Neuroscience, University of Palermo, Mario Bravo 1259, C.P. 1425. Buenos Aires, Argentina. gvazquez@palermo.edu
Nasetta
Susana
S
Mercado
Beatriz
B
Romero
Ester
E
Tifner
Sonia
S
Ramón
María del L
Mdel L
Garelli
Valentina
V
Bonifacio
Ana
A
Akiskal
Kareen K
KK
Akiskal
Hagop S
HS
D000328:Adult; D001118:Argentina; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013694:Temperament