Validity and Reliability Assessment of the Complete Persian Version of the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris, and San Diego Auto Questionnaire in an Iranian Population

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of the complete Persian version of the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris, and San Diego Autoquestionnaire (TEMPS-A) in an Iranian population. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, the TEMPS-A was first translated to Persian by a bilingual expert and was then back-translated to English by another expert and compared with the original version. The face validity and content validity of the Persian version of the questionnaire were confirmed following assessment by several psychiatrists. The Persian version of the questionnaire was then administered among 30 personnel of Imam Hossein Hospital to be completed. The same questionnaire was administered again among the same personnel after a 2-week interval to assess its reliability.  Results: The Cronbach’s alpha was calculated to be 0.911, indicating excellent reliability of the Persian version of the TEMPS-A. None of the questions required correction or omission. Some questions did not have a good correlation with the general scale but the correlation of the majority of them with the general scale was good. A significant difference was found in the mean scores of the questions (P 0.001), and the mean total score was 1.73. Conclusion: The present results showed excellent reliability of the complete Persian version of the TEMPS-A ( 0.9). Future studies are required to scrutinize the subscales of this questionnaire.