Probing apathy in children and adolescents with the Apathy Motivation Index-Child version.

Apathy Development Mental health Motivation Psychiatry Self-report

Journal

Behavior research methods
ISSN: 1554-3528
Titre abrégé: Behav Res Methods
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101244316

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
03 Aug 2023
Historique:
accepted: 28 06 2023
medline: 4 8 2023
pubmed: 4 8 2023
entrez: 3 8 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

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.

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pubmed: 37537490
doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02184-4
pii: 10.3758/s13428-023-02184-4
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Journal Article

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eng

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Auteurs

Samuel R C Hewitt (SRC)

Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London, UK. s.hewitt.17@ucl.ac.uk.
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK. s.hewitt.17@ucl.ac.uk.

Johanna Habicht (J)

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.

Aislinn Bowler (A)

Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, London, WC1E 7HX, UK.

Patricia L Lockwood (PL)

Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Centre for Developmental Science, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

Tobias U Hauser (TU)

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.
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical School and University Hospital, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

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