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Kwapil, Thomas R Berson, Talia Rebecca 2021-03-05T21:40:41Z 2021-03-05T21:40:41Z 2023-03-05T21:43:00Z 2020-11-04 2020-12 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. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-12-01 The student, Talia Berson, accepted the attached license on 2020-11-04 at 10:54. The student, Talia Berson, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-11-04 at 11:12. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-11-04 at 16:29. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15855 on 2021-03-04 at 16:19:25 Made available in DSpace on 2021-03-05T21:40:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 BERSON-THESIS-2020.pdf: 2207255 bytes, checksum: db138697e961c2ac07531f46c5782939 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4209 bytes, checksum: e2aa353dd9876dc78929d6aa26ce7345 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2020-11-04 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 117191 Lift date: 2023-03-05T21:40:52Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 117191 Lift date: 2023-03-05T21:43:00Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/109487 en Copyright 2020 Talia Berson bipolar spectrum psychopathology bipolar disorders psychometric assessment multidimensional factor analysis A critical examination of multidimensionality within the Hypomanic Personality Scale text Thesis Psychology Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.