title: Confirmation of the factorial structure of temperamental autoquestionnaire TEMPS-A in non-clinical young adults and relation to current state of anxiety, depression and to schizotypal traits.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The 39-item TEMPS-A self-rated questionnaire assesses affective temperaments. We examined the factorial structure of its French version in a large sample of young adults and examined the relation to schizotypy, depression and anxiety.
  
  
  METHODS
  University students were enrolled during their mandatory preventive health visit in the University medical facility (n = 3807, 19.9 ± 2.5 y.o.). They answered to the 39-TEMPS-A questionnaire, the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ) and the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS). We performed an exploratory Factorial Component Analysis (FCA) with varimax rotation of the 39-TEMPS-A in half of the sample, randomly selected, followed by a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in the remaining subsample. TEMPS-A dimensions were correlated to HADS and SPQ sub-scores.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A five-factor structure was found by PCA and confirmed by the confirmatory analysis. The scale showed a good internal consistency (whole scale Cronbach's α: 0.83 and from 0.78 to 0.59 for Cyclothymic, Depressive, Irritable, Hyperthymic, Anxious subscales). Depressive and Anxious TEMPS-A subscales were moderately correlated to HADS Depression and Anxiety subscales (Spearman ρ = 0.37 to 0.33). Cyclothymic and Depressive TEMPS-A subscales were respectively correlated to SPQ Paranoid (ρ = 0.53) and Negative dimensions (ρ = 0.52).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Representativity of the sample (higher education, response rate).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We confirmed the five factor structure of the 39-item TEMPS-A in a large non-clinical population of young adults and found consistent correlations with anxiety - depression state markers and schizotypal traits.
authors.affiliation: Inserm, Laboratoire de Physiopathologie des Maladies Psychiatriques, Centre Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, U894, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Yannick
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morvan
authors.forename: Feriel
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tibaoui
authors.forename: Marie-Chantal
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Bourdel
authors.forename: Henri
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lôo
authors.forename: Kareen K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Akiskal
authors.forename: Hagop S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Akiskal
authors.forename: Marie-Odile
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Krebs
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013694:Temperament; D055815:Young Adult