The Affective and Emotional Composite Temperament Scale (AFECTS): Psychometric properties of the Spanish version in a community sample from Mexico City and comparison between remitted psychiatric patients

The latent structure and reliability of the emotional trait section of the Affective and Emotional Composite Temperament Scale (AFECTS)

“…The division of the Inhibition into two factors of fear and caution produced a valid general solution (a 7-factor solution for AFECTS emotional scale). This division is also supported by to previus empirical data that show that fear and caution stablish opposite relatioships with criteria variables such as substance misuse 4 or traumatic experiences 6 . Moreover, fear and caution under our 7-correlated factor solution exhibited a very small standardized correlation (r = 0.285), which indicates a divergent validity between both domains.…”

“…Other studies have shown that AFECTS trait scores differentiated individuals in regard to dissimilar traumatic courses 4 , sexual orientation identities 5 , substance use and misuse patterns 7,9 , personality disorders 10 , and daily energy patterns and cronotypes 11 . These findings showed that higher scores on volition, caution, control and coping were associated with more adaptative outcomes and social privilege, while higher scores on the traits anger, fear, and sensitivity were correlated with maladaptative outcomes and social vulnerability.…”

“…Inhibition 1 was designed as a second-order factor that accounted for the correlations between fear an caution first-order factors. Nevertheless, accumulating evidence have shown that fear and caution display opposite association with external outcome criteria: while fear is investilly associated with psychosocial adjustment patterns, caution seem to predict positive adjustment [4][5][6][7] . Thus, in this investigation, we addressed Inhibition vector as comprised by two single-factors of fear and caution: fear is thought to arises from "here and now" threaten situations and is related to freezing and flight reactions.…”

Associação entre Temperamento e o Uso de Práticas da Medicina Alternativa e Complementar

“…Além destes, há mais dois itens que avaliam como o indivíduo percebe as vantagens e problemas do temperamento. Os escores obtidos por meio da aplicação da AFECTS apresentaram excelentes graus de validade e confiabilidade em amostras erigidas a partir da população geral e coletadas por intermédio da Internet , de entrevistas face a face (Carvalho et al, 2020), assim como em amostras com pacientes ambulatoriais e hospitalizados (Romo-Nava et al, 2015;Castro, Baroni, Martins, Palmini, & Bisol, 2018).…”

Temperamento afetivo e o cuidado de pacientes oncológicos internados: repercussões para o bem-estar psicológico e percepção de sobrecarga

“…As variáveis de temperamento delineadas pelo modelo AFECT podem ser avaliadas pela Escala de Temperamento Emocional e Afetivo (AFECTS), cujas propriedades psicométricas foram previamente avaliadas em amostras brasileiras Carvalho et al, 2013) e mexicanas (Romo-Nava et al, 2015) e, em ambos contextos, apresentou ótimos indicadores de fidedignidade e de validade fatorial. Ainda, a administração da AFECTS em pesquisas tem produzido dados que corroboram as hipóteses delineadas com base no modelo teórico, ampliando o status de validade do mesmo e ratificando seu poder preditivo no que tange à avaliação de diferentes desfechos comportamentais, a saber: heterogeneidade clínica do Transtorno de Personalidade Borderline ; abuso e negligência na infância (Sudbrack et al, 2015), orientação sexual (Guerrin et al, 2015), dependência de cocaína (Fuscaldo et al, 2013) e tendências suicidas (Araújo et al, 2015).…”