2ND STUDY OF VALIDATION OF THE FRENCH VER SION OF THE PHYSICAL ANHEDONIA SCALE (PAS) IN 356 SUBJECTS

Authors
Citation
G. Loas et P. Boyer, 2ND STUDY OF VALIDATION OF THE FRENCH VER SION OF THE PHYSICAL ANHEDONIA SCALE (PAS) IN 356 SUBJECTS, Annales medico-psychologiques, 152(4), 1994, pp. 256-259
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychology
ISSN journal
00034487
Volume
152
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
256 - 259
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4487(1994)152:4<256:2SOVOT>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
This work presents a second study of validation of the French version of the Physical Anhedonia Scale (PAS) in four groups (221 and 32 norma l subjects, 61 schizophrenics (RDC) and 42 major depressives (RDC). Th e internal consistency was determined by the Kuder-Richardson coeffici ent (KR 20) which values was 0.75 in the normal group and 0.82 in the schizophrenic group. The mean of the correlations between each item an d the total score was 0.25. The concurrent validity was studied by the correlation coefficient between the PAS score and a sub-scale of phys ical pleasure (FCPCS-PP) extracted from the Fawcett Clark Pleasure Cap acity Scale. The values were - 0.39 (p < 0.01) in the normal groups, - 0.37 (p < 0.01) in the schizophrenic group and - 0.56 (p < 0.01) in t he depressive group. A test retest have shown a value of 0.76 (p < 0.0 1) between two passations (3 weeks) of the PAS. The norms of PAS in th e French population were given.