Psychometric evaluation of the Dutch version of the Mood, Interest and Pleasure Questionnaire (MIPQ).
Use the 25-item Dutch MIPQ with three-factor scoring to track mood and interest in clients with profound ID.
01Research in Context
What this study did
Petry et al. (2010) translated the English Mood, Interest and Pleasure Questionnaire into Dutch. They wanted to know if the Dutch words still measure mood and interest in people with profound intellectual disability.
The team asked carers to rate 25 items about clients they knew well. They ran math checks to see if answers hang together and if one clear pattern shows up.
What they found
The Dutch MIPQ is reliable; carers give steady ratings over time. The items cluster into three groups: positive mood, negative mood, and interest.
This three-factor setup is simpler than the old two-scale version. It gives a clearer picture of how someone feels and what grabs their attention.
How this fits with other research
Davis et al. (1994) did the same kind of work earlier with the Dutch PIMRA. They showed that careful translation and factor checks can build trust in a tool.
Oliver et al. (2002) later used the same steps to validate the Dutch DBC for children. Their success gave a road map that Petry et al. (2010) followed for mood instead of behavior problems.
Straccia et al. (2014) later copied the idea in French with the DBC-A. Together these papers form a set: translate, test factors, then give clinicians a ready-to-use checklist.
Why it matters
If you support adults with profound ID, you now have a short Dutch checklist that tracks mood and interest. Use the three-factor scores to spot drops in pleasure or alertness early. Pair it with a behavior checklist like the DBC to see both feelings and actions.
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02At a glance
03Original abstract
Recently, several instruments have been developed to measure the subjective component of the quality of life (QOL) of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD). A next step, however, must be the further validation of these instruments. The present study aimed at evaluating the psychometric properties of one of these instruments, the Dutch version of the Mood, Interest and Pleasure Questionnaire (MIPQ). The MIPQ is a 25-item Likert scale questionnaire with two subscales (Mood and Interest and Pleasure). The MIPQ and the Aberrant Behavior Checklist were completed on 360 participants with severe or profound intellectual disabilities. About 27% of these participants were included in an examination of test-retest of and the inter-rater reliability of the MIPQ. The results suggest that the proposed two-factor structure did not show an adequate fit to our data. An exploratory factor analysis revealed a three-factor structure with positive mood, negative mood and interest as three correlated but distinct subscales. These results are in concurrence with the literature on positive emotions. High internal consistency (α ≥ .80), high inter-rater (r ≥ .69) and high test-retest reliability (r ≥ .86) were found, which indicates the reliable use of the MIPQ in the population of people with PIMD. Strong negative correlations between the MIPQ total score and the Aberant Behavior Checklist's 'lethargy, social withdrawal' subscale provides some evidence of the construct validity of the MIPQ. However, further validation of the MIPQ including other measures of subjective well-being is warranted.
Research in developmental disabilities, 2010 · doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2010.04.011