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Validation of the Arabic version of the 35-item TEMPS-M in a community sample of adults
BACKGROUND: To our knowledge, no brief version of the Temperament Evaluation in Memphis Pisa and San Diego (TEMPS-M) is available so far in the Arabic language, which might have resulted in limited research in this field from Arab countries. We aimed through this study to validate the 35-item TEMPS-...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9883938/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36709317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01064-y |
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author | Fekih-Romdhane, Feten Yakın, Ecem Bitar, Zeinab Malaeb, Diana Sawma, Toni Obeid, Sahar Hallit, Souheil |
author_facet | Fekih-Romdhane, Feten Yakın, Ecem Bitar, Zeinab Malaeb, Diana Sawma, Toni Obeid, Sahar Hallit, Souheil |
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description | BACKGROUND: To our knowledge, no brief version of the Temperament Evaluation in Memphis Pisa and San Diego (TEMPS-M) is available so far in the Arabic language, which might have resulted in limited research in this field from Arab countries. We aimed through this study to validate the 35-item TEMPS-M into the Arabic language in a sample of non-clinical Lebanese adults. METHODS: We used an online cross-sectional survey targeting non-clinical Lebanese adults from the general population. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to test the factorial structure of the TEMPS-M. RESULTS: All five temperament subscales achieved good/very good internal consistencies in the present study (depressive: α = 0.78, cyclothymic: α = 0.86, hyperthymic: α = 0.83, irritable: α = 0.87, and anxious: α = 0.87). The five-factor solution of the TEMPS-M displayed a good CFI of 0.94, TLI of .94 and a GFI of .95, but a poor RMSEA of .10 [90% CI .10, .11]. The five affective temperaments showed positive correlations with personality dysfunction domains, thus attesting for convergent validity. In addition, positive correlations between all affective temperament dimensions and anxiety/depression scores were found. We also tested for gender invariance, and found that configural, metric, and scalar invariance were supported across gender. CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that the psychometric properties of the Arabic TEMPS-M are good. Making this scale available in Arabic will hopefully encourage Arab researchers to investigate this under-explored topic in their countries, and advance knowledge on how culture impacts the prevalence, development and course of temperament. |
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spelling | pubmed-98839382023-01-29 Validation of the Arabic version of the 35-item TEMPS-M in a community sample of adults Fekih-Romdhane, Feten Yakın, Ecem Bitar, Zeinab Malaeb, Diana Sawma, Toni Obeid, Sahar Hallit, Souheil BMC Psychol Research BACKGROUND: To our knowledge, no brief version of the Temperament Evaluation in Memphis Pisa and San Diego (TEMPS-M) is available so far in the Arabic language, which might have resulted in limited research in this field from Arab countries. We aimed through this study to validate the 35-item TEMPS-M into the Arabic language in a sample of non-clinical Lebanese adults. METHODS: We used an online cross-sectional survey targeting non-clinical Lebanese adults from the general population. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to test the factorial structure of the TEMPS-M. RESULTS: All five temperament subscales achieved good/very good internal consistencies in the present study (depressive: α = 0.78, cyclothymic: α = 0.86, hyperthymic: α = 0.83, irritable: α = 0.87, and anxious: α = 0.87). The five-factor solution of the TEMPS-M displayed a good CFI of 0.94, TLI of .94 and a GFI of .95, but a poor RMSEA of .10 [90% CI .10, .11]. The five affective temperaments showed positive correlations with personality dysfunction domains, thus attesting for convergent validity. In addition, positive correlations between all affective temperament dimensions and anxiety/depression scores were found. We also tested for gender invariance, and found that configural, metric, and scalar invariance were supported across gender. CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that the psychometric properties of the Arabic TEMPS-M are good. Making this scale available in Arabic will hopefully encourage Arab researchers to investigate this under-explored topic in their countries, and advance knowledge on how culture impacts the prevalence, development and course of temperament. BioMed Central 2023-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9883938/ /pubmed/36709317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01064-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Fekih-Romdhane, Feten Yakın, Ecem Bitar, Zeinab Malaeb, Diana Sawma, Toni Obeid, Sahar Hallit, Souheil Validation of the Arabic version of the 35-item TEMPS-M in a community sample of adults |
title | Validation of the Arabic version of the 35-item TEMPS-M in a community sample of adults |
title_full | Validation of the Arabic version of the 35-item TEMPS-M in a community sample of adults |
title_fullStr | Validation of the Arabic version of the 35-item TEMPS-M in a community sample of adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Validation of the Arabic version of the 35-item TEMPS-M in a community sample of adults |
title_short | Validation of the Arabic version of the 35-item TEMPS-M in a community sample of adults |
title_sort | validation of the arabic version of the 35-item temps-m in a community sample of adults |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9883938/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36709317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01064-y |
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