The adaptation study of the brief form of the affective neuroscience personality scales (BANPS) to Turkish

The aim of this study is to adapt Brief Form of Affective Neuroscience Scales (BANPS) into Turkish culture and examine its reliability and validity. BANPS was originally developed by Barrett and colleagues (2013) to shorten and improve the psychometric properties of ANPS (Davis et al., 20013). The BANPS consisted of 33 items and six scales which aim to assess personality traits on the basis of six affective systems (SEEK, PLAY, CARE, FEAR, ANGER, SADNESS). The reliability and validity analyses of Turkish BANPS were conducted with three groups of participants, including all participants (N= 873), young adults (N= 296), and adults (N= 577). The original methodology utilized in the construction of BANPS and Turkish ANPS (Özkarar-Gradwohl et al., 2014) was followed both in reliability and validity analyses. The results implicated that the gender and age of the participants are important variables in BANPS scores. The Cronbach alpha values both for total and individual scales of BANPS indicated that the Turkish BANPS has good internal reliability. The results of overall reliability and validity analyses demonstrated that Turkish BANPS is a reliable and valid tool to utilize in assessing individual differences in primary affective systems in the Turkish non-clinical young adult and adult populations. The limitations and suggestions for future studies are also discussed as well as the findings of the study. Keywords: personality, scale adaptation, affective neuroscience, brief-ANPS, ANPS