Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London, UK.
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Apr;56(4):3982-3994. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02184-4. Epub 2023 Aug 3.
Apathy is linked to mental health and altered neurocognitive functions such as learning and decision-making in healthy adults. Mental health problems typically begin to emerge during adolescence, yet little is known about how apathy develops due to an absence of quantitative measurements specific to young people. Here, we present and evaluate the Apathy Motivation Index-Child Version (AMI-CV) for children and adolescents. We show across two samples of young people (aged 8 to 17 years, total N = 191) tested in schools in the UK and on a smartphone app, that the AMI-CV is a short, psychometrically sound measure to assess levels of apathy and motivation in young people. Similar to adult versions, the AMI-CV captures three distinct apathy domains: Behavioural Activation, Social Motivation and Emotional Sensitivity. The AMI-CV showed excellent construct validity with an alternative measure of apathy and external validity replicating specific links with related mental health traits shown in adults. Our results provide a short measure of self-reported apathy in young people that enables research into apathy development. The AMI-CV can be used in conjunction with the adult version to investigate the impact of levels of apathy across the lifespan.
冷漠与心理健康以及健康成年人的神经认知功能改变有关，如学习和决策。心理健康问题通常在青春期开始出现，但由于缺乏针对年轻人的定量测量方法，因此对冷漠是如何发展的知之甚少。在这里，我们提出并评估了针对儿童和青少年的冷漠动机指数-儿童版（AMI-CV）。我们通过在英国学校和智能手机应用程序上对两个年轻人样本（年龄在 8 至 17 岁之间，总人数为 191 人）进行测试，证明 AMI-CV 是一种简短、心理测量可靠的方法，可用于评估年轻人的冷漠和动机水平。与成人版本类似，AMI-CV 捕捉到三个不同的冷漠领域：行为激活、社会动机和情绪敏感性。AMI-CV 与另一种冷漠测量方法具有极好的结构有效性，并且具有外部有效性，可复制与成年人中表现出的相关心理健康特征的特定联系。我们的结果为年轻人提供了一种自我报告冷漠的简短衡量标准，使研究能够深入了解冷漠的发展。AMI-CV 可以与成人版本一起使用，以调查整个生命周期中冷漠水平的影响。
