The Dutch Translation of the Brief Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales <subtitle>Primary Emotional Systems Predict Phenotypical Personality Traits</subtitle>

Abstract

Abstract: The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales is a self-report measure that assesses neurobiologically defined, primary emotional system activation in a clinically feasible way. The current study introduces the Dutch translation of the Brief Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (BANPS) and investigates its relation with lexical–statistical Five-Factor Model (FFM) personality traits. A Flemish community sample of 339 participants (76.7% female, 23.3% male, 18–65 years) completed the BANPS, of which 255 (73.7% female, 26.3% male) also completed the NEO-PI-3. Confirmatory factor analysis corroborated the BANPS six-factor structure. Alpha coefficients were indicative of adequate subscale internal consistencies. Congruence coefficients with the original factor solution were high. Hierarchical regression analyses related primary emotional systems to lexical–statistical personality traits. The Dutch version of the BANPS appears to be a reliable scale exhibiting meaningful relations to the FFM.

Keywords

• BANPS
• affective neuroscience
• Panksepp
• neurobiological approach
• lexical–statistical approach