| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 890080 | Personality and Individual Differences | 2015 | 6 Pages |
•Demonstrated reliability and validity of Hypomanic Personality Scale short form.•The short HPS showed comparable reliability relative to the original measure.•The short HPS correlated with core aspects of bipolar spectrum psychopathology.•The short HPS predicted DSM bipolar and broad bipolar spectrum disorders.•The short HPS may tap more deviant aspects of bipolar spectrum psychopathology.
The Hypomanic Personality Scale (HPS) is used to investigate hypomanic traits and risk for bipolar spectrum disorders; however, the length of the HPS (48 items) may be prohibitive for clinical research and screening purposes. Meads and Bentall (2008) developed a promising 20-item version of the HPS; however, the psychometric properties and validity of the short form have not been thoroughly examined. The present study investigated the construct validity and psychometric properties of the short HPS. A sample of 2713 non-clinically ascertained young adults was used to assess psychometric properties of the short form relative to the original scale. Two non-overlapping subsamples (n = 522; n = 145) were used to investigate the validity of the short HPS using personality and temperament questionnaires and clinical interviews of bipolar psychopathology and diagnoses. The short and original HPS generally had comparable correlations with measures of temperament, personality, impulsivity, borderline personality, grandiosity, psychosocial functioning, and alcohol use, and comparably predicted DSM bipolar and bipolar spectrum diagnoses. Overall, the short HPS was found to be both reliable and valid. However, the short HPS tended to be more strongly correlated with pathological components of hypomanic personality and less strongly correlated with exuberant and potentially adaptive aspects of the construct.
