Corveleyn Xavier, Corbel Camille, Fabre Roxane, Zeghari Radia, Dujardin Kathy, Robert Philippe, Manera Valeria
LAPCOS, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France.
MSHS Sud-Est, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société Sud-Est, Nice, France.
Front Psychol. 2023 Oct 20;14:1252965. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1252965. eCollection 2023.
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.
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.
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.
These results suggest that the f-AMI can be used to assess levels of apathy in healthy adults.
冷漠存在于多种脑部疾病中，但在健康人群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，但尚无针对健康人群的标准化冷漠测量方法。
因此，本研究旨在验证法语版的冷漠动机指数（f-AMI）。使用探索性因子分析对729名参与者的结果进行了分析。
初步分析表明，在原始AMI量表中提取的冷漠的三个领域——行为激活（BA）、社会动机（SM）和情感敏感性（ES）——在f-AMI中也能找到。进一步的探索性分析表明，可以提取更多的因子，尤其是女性。具体而言，社会和情感因子都可以分为两个子因子：（1）对陌生人或熟人的社会动机，以及（2）针对他人的自我导向情感敏感性。关于结构效度，f-AMI的得分与法语版维度冷漠量表的结果相关。关于区分效度，冷漠中的情感敏感性与抑郁、快感缺失和疲劳水平不同。
这些结果表明，f-AMI可用于评估健康成年人的冷漠程度。
