The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI; Cloninger, Przybeck, Svrakic, & Wetzel, 1994) is a self-questionnaire developed to assess the 7 dimensions of personality described by Cloninger et al. (1994) with a total of 29 subscales. In 1999, a revised version was proposed by Cloninger (TCI-R). In this study, we present psychometric properties of the TCI-R from 958 French-speaking participants...

Temperamental traits, the most basic part of personality, have been largely correlated with neurotransmitter systems and are under genetic control. Among serotonin candidates, the 2A receptor (5-HT(2A)) received considerable attention. We analyzed four SNPs (rs643627, rs594242, rs6311 and rs6313) in the 5-HT(2A) gene and their association with personality traits, as measured with the Temperamen...

Authors present clinically useful approach of personality disorder diagnostics on the base of low self-directedness (SD) in Cloninger ́s Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and configuration of temperament traits of novelty seeking, harm avoidance and reward dependence. Temperament trait were assessed in male general population (N=543, age 19-28) and older population (N=91, age 48-76; N=12...

In a cross-comparison study, the Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) personality profile was administered to 28 probable pathological gamblers (PPGs), 32 nonpathological gamblers (non-PGs), and 65 controls. As a screening device, the validated Italian version of the South Oak Gambling Screen was administered to all subjects. Novelty Seeking (NS) values were higher in PPGs in c...

OBJECTIVE To assess the factorial structure, reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), a 240-item, self-report, paper-and-pencil test, and true-false format inventory based on Cloninger's psychobiological model of personality. It measures the four higher-order temperament dimensions and three character dimensions. METHOD Using samples co...

We explored the psychometric features of the French Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) in a 602-subject community sample (263 men and 339 women), representative of the French population. The factor structures of the temperament and character dimensions, explored separately, were in agreement with the hypothesized constructs, except for the scales Novelty Seeking NS1 (exploratory excitabi...

INTRODUCTION Personality traits have been associated with primary depression. However, it is not known whether this association takes place in the case of depression comorbid with fibromyalgia. OBJECTIVE The authors investigated the association between a current major depressive episode and temperament traits (e.g., harm avoidance). METHOD A sample of 69 adult female patients with fibromyal...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common sleep-related movement disorder that is frequently associated with psychological disturbances. Personality traits are of considerable importance with respect to coping with chronic illness and disease vulnerability. This study assessed the temperament and character traits of RLS patients using an approach that involves the psychobi...

objective: the aim was to determine how personality of major depressive disorder (mdd) patients is different from that of bipolar ii disorder (biid) patients. methods: in this cross-sectional study, two groups of patients with mdd (47 patients) and biid (45 patients) between 18 and 55 years old were included and compared. the research instrument that subjects answered to was temperament and cha...