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A critical examination of multidimensionality within the Hypomanic Personality Scale

Berson, Talia Rebecca

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Title
A critical examination of multidimensionality within the Hypomanic Personality Scale
Author(s)
Berson, Talia Rebecca
Issue Date
2020-11-04
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Kwapil, Thomas R
Department of Study
Psychology
Discipline
Psychology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
  • bipolar spectrum psychopathology
  • bipolar disorders
  • psychometric assessment
  • multidimensional
  • factor analysis
Abstract
The Hypomanic Personality Scale (HPS) is a psychometric assessment that identifies bipolar spectrum psychopathology and risk for bipolar disorders. Despite its conceptualization as a unidimensional scale, several studies have attempted to derive an underlying multidimensional structure of the HPS. Given the lack of consensus between these models, and the interest in elucidating the multidimensional structure of bipolar spectrum psychopathology, we attempted to replicate previous multidimensional models of the HPS with a large undergraduate and adult sample (n = 5002). We were unable to successfully replicate these prior models and derived, instead, two competing models of the underlying factor structure of the HPS. However, these models were limited by factors of unequal sizes and questionable content validity. We examined the associations of our two models with questionnaire and interview measures of affect and psychopathology. Ultimately, we concluded that the HPS is best employed in its original, unidimensional form. We recommend that the creation of a multidimensional assessment of bipolar spectrum psychopathology should follow from the development of a theoretically driven, comprehensive multidimensional model, rather than from parsing apart a useful, but largely unidimensional measure, such as the HPS.
Graduation Semester
2020-12
Type of Resource
Thesis
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Copyright 2020 Talia Berson

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