Factor structure of the French version of the Hypomanic Personality Scale (HPS) in non-clinical young adults.
BACKGROUND
Hypomanic Personality Scale (HPS) is a self-report questionnaire designed to identify vulnerable individuals at high risk of bipolar disorders in non-clinical samples. Our aim was to identify the factorial structure of HPS in a French non-clinical sample and to compare this with different factor solutions described in the literature. We carried out a survey in a French population using a French version of HPS.


METHODS
A total of 698 participants were included in the study. They completed the HPS, the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief (SPQ-B), the Positive And Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II). We tested the 1, 3 and 4-factor solutions and used a Confirmatory Factor Analysis to compare these with the factor solutions suggested by Rawling et al. and Schalet et al.


RESULTS
Goodness-of-fit indices showed that Schalet et al.'s solution "fits" our data better than Rawling et al.'s factorial solutions. HPS scores correlated with the PANAS Positive score and the SPQ-B total score. We confirmed the 3-factor structure of the HPS in a large non-clinical population of young adults and found consistent correlations with BDI, affectivity and schizotypal traits.
Laboratoire Cognition, Santé, Socialisation (EA6291), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France.
Sarah
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Terrien
Laboratoire Cognition, Santé, Socialisation (EA6291), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France.
Nicolas
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Stefaniak
Inserm U894-LPMP, Centre Psychiatrie et Neuroscience, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France; Laboratoire CLIPSYD, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Nanterre, France.
Yannick
Y
Morvan
Laboratoire Cognition, Santé, Socialisation (EA6291), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France; Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France. Electronic address: chrystel.besche@univ-reims.fr.
Chrystel
C
Besche-Richard
D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report; D014177:Translations; D055815:Young Adult