Validation study of the apathy motivation index in French adults.

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2023-10-20 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1252965

Xavier Corveleyn, Camille Corbel, Roxane Fabre, Radia Zeghari, Kathy Dujardin, Philippe Robert, Valeria Manera

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Abstract

Objective: Apathy is present in many brain disorders, but it is also prevalent to varying degrees in healthy people. While many tools have been developed to assess levels of apathy in pathology, no standardized measure of apathy in healthy people exists.

Method: Therefore, this study aimed to validate the French version of the Apathy Motivation Index (f-AMI). The results of 729 participants were analyzed using an exploratory factorial analysis.

Results: Preliminary analyses suggested that the three domains of apathy extracted in the original AMI scale-behavioral activation (BA), social motivation (SM), and emotional sensitivity (ES)-could be found also in the f-AMI. A further exploratory analysis showed that a higher number of factors could be extracted, particularly for women. Specifically, both social and emotional factors could be divided into two sub-factors: (1) social motivation toward strangers or toward an acquaintance and (2) self-directed emotional sensitivity directed toward others. Regarding construct validity, the scores of f-AMI were correlated with the French Dimensional Apathy Scale results. Concerning the divergent validity, emotional sensitivity in apathy is different from depression, anhedonia, and fatigue levels.

Conclusion: These results suggest that the f-AMI can be used to assess levels of apathy in healthy adults.

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法国成年人冷漠动机指数的验证研究。

目的：冷漠存在于许多脑部疾病中，但在健康人中也不同程度地普遍存在。虽然已经开发了许多工具来评估病理学中的冷漠程度，但健康人的冷漠程度还没有标准化的衡量标准。方法：因此，本研究旨在验证法国版的冷漠动机指数（f-AMI）。729名参与者的结果采用探索性因子分析进行分析。结果：初步分析表明，在原始AMI量表行为激活（BA）、社会动机（SM）和情感敏感性（ES）中提取的冷漠三个领域也可以在f-AMI中找到。进一步的探索性分析表明，可以提取更多的因素，尤其是对女性而言。具体而言，社会和情感因素可分为两个子因素：（1）对陌生人或熟人的社会动机；（2）对他人的自我导向情感敏感性。关于结构有效性，f-AMI的得分与法国维度冷漠量表的结果相关。关于发散有效性，冷漠的情绪敏感性与抑郁、焦虑和疲劳水平不同。结论：f-AMI可用于评估健康成年人的冷漠程度。

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Frontiers in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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5.30

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13.20%

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7396

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14 weeks

期刊介绍： Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.