Clinical instrument

Hypomanic traits: Mood intensity/change

Hypomanic traits: Mood intensity/change uses 12 International Personality Item Pool statements to assess Hypomanic traits: Mood intensity/change.

This is a clinical instrument. It is not publicly self-administered; a clinician assigns it through a secure patient link.

You learn how intense and changeable your moods tend to be.

For anyone whose moods swing quickly or run unusually strong.

It comes from mood research on the intensity and changeability of feelings.

Sample result, example data. Illustrative chart with invented scores; it does not describe any real respondent.

What this test is

Welcome. Hypomanic traits: Mood intensity/change uses 12 International Personality Item Pool statements to assess Hypomanic traits: Mood intensity/change.

The measure

It has 12 items, each answered on a 5-point (Very Inaccurate … Very Accurate) scale.

International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org).

At a glance

Items

Response scale

5-point (Very Inaccurate … Very Accurate)

Est. time

~2 min

Access

Assigned only · no per-report charge

What it measures

Twelve statements describe intense and changeable mood: having moods that swing from very high to very low, feeling so full of energy at times that one hardly needs sleep, experiencing euphoria without clear reason, and having periods of racing thoughts. The scale captures the emotional side of a hypomanic temperament.

Eckblad and Chapman (1986) described the hypomanic personality as a stable disposition toward energy and elevated mood, and Kwapil and colleagues (2000) found that people with very high scores were more likely to develop mood disorders over time. The statements here come from the public-domain International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) and describe mood intensity and change separately.

The ratings are combined into a single score. Higher scores describe stronger and more changeable moods with bursts of energy; lower scores describe a more even emotional life. High scores describe a temperament, not a disorder, although very marked mood changes may deserve clinical attention.

The scale is used in research on mood and temperament. On this site, the Hypomanic Personality Scale measures the broader disposition, the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) screens for past episodes of elevated mood, and the Exhibitionism scale describes the social side of the temperament.

Validity evidence

Mood intensity and rapid mood change are core features of hypomanic personality structure and bipolar spectrum risk, validated in longitudinal studies of mood disorder onset.

Example item

“Get into moods where I feel very speeded up and irritable.”

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Illustrative only. During administration items are presented one screen-set at a time; response-key direction is never shown to respondents.

Scoring & interpretation

Your report explains each of your scale scores in plain language.

References

Goldberg, L. R. (1999). A broad-bandwidth, public domain, personality inventory. Personality Psychology in Europe, 7, 7-28.
Eckblad, M., & Chapman, L. J. (1986). Development and validation of a scale for hypomanic personality. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95(3), 214-222.

Sample report preview

The report shows your total score and where it falls across the range of possible scores, followed by a plain-language explanation of what scores in that region describe. Where the instrument has published interpretive bands, the report names the band and what it means. It closes with notes on how to read the result and on when a conversation with a qualified professional may be useful.

Report contents
Section	What it shows
Score	Your scale score, computed with the published scoring key.
Comparisons	How your scores compare with a published comparison group.

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