In April 2016 Manchester eScholar was replaced by the University of Manchester’s new Research Information Management System, Pure. In the autumn the University’s research outputs will be available to search and browse via a new Research Portal. Until then the University’s full publication record can be accessed via a temporary portal and the old eScholar content is available to search and browse via this archive.

Related resources

Full-text held externally

DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2006.01.017

Search for item elsewhere

University researcher(s)

Academic department(s)

Appraisal of Hypomania Relevant Experiences: Development of a Questionnaire to Assess Positive Self Dispositional Appraisals in Bipolar and Behavioural High Risk Samples.

Jones SH, Mansell W, L Waller

Journal of Affective Disorders. 2006;93:19-28.

Access to files

Full-text and supplementary files are not available from Manchester eScholar. Full-text is available externally using the following links:

Full-text held externally

DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2006.01.017

Abstract

AbstractBackgroundThis paper reports two studies concerned with the development and validation of the Hypomania Interpretations Questionnaire (HIQ) designed to assess positive self-dispositional appraisals for hypomania-relevant experiences.MethodsStudy 1: 203 late adolescent participants completed the HIQ along with additional measures of general symptom interpretation, dysfunctional attitudes and hypomanic personality.Study 2: 56 adults with a self-reported diagnosis of bipolar disorder and 39 controls completed a revised HIQ and a measure of current mood symptoms.ResultsStudy 1: The final 10 item HIQ had two subscales: a) positive self-dispositional appraisals (HIQ-H); and b) normalising appraisals (HIQ-NE). Internal and testretest reliability were adequate. Hypomanic personality scores were significantly and uniquely predicted by recent hypomania-relevant experiences and HIQ-H score.Study 2: HIQ remained internally reliable within this sample. Bipolar participants (BD) reported more subsyndromal mood symptoms than controls (C) and scored significantly higher on HIQ-H even after covarying for these. HIQ-H was the primary predictor of diagnostic group. Its ability to discriminate BD from C was confirmed by ROC analysis.LimitationsThe studies are cross-sectional and did not include non-bipolar psychiatric control groups.ConclusionsHIQ appears to be a reliable and valid measure for the assessment of positive self-dispositional appraisals which seem to be linked to both hypomanic personality and bipolar disorder. The relevance of such appraisals for symptom exacerbation, relapse and psychological treatment would merit future investigation. Keywords: Bipolar disorder; Appraisal; Circadian rhythms; Psychometrics

Bibliographic metadata

Type of resource:

text

Content type:

Journal article

Publication type:

Original work

Publication form:

Academic journal article

Author list:

Jones SH, Mansell W, L Waller.

Published date:

2006-7

Article title:

Appraisal of Hypomania Relevant Experiences: Development of a Questionnaire to Assess Positive Self Dispositional Appraisals in Bipolar and Behavioural High Risk Samples.

Journal title:

Journal of Affective Disorders

ISSN:

0165-0327

Volume:

Start page:

End page:

Pagination:

19-28

Digital Object Identifier:

10.1016/j.jad.2006.01.017

Access state:

Active

Institutional metadata

University researcher(s):

Academic department(s):

Record metadata

Manchester eScholar ID:

uk-ac-man-scw:1d12640

Created:

29th August, 2009, 16:31:55

Last modified:

20th May, 2013, 19:22:36