Validation study of the French version of the TCI

The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) has been developed by Cloninger in order to assess the seven dimensions of his psychobiological model of personality : novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence, persistence, self-directedness, cooperation, and self-transcendence. The TCI is a 226-item self-questionnaire, generally completed in. 30-40 minutes. We report in this paper the first validation studies of the French version of the TCI : a study on its factorial structure carried out in a clinical sample of 242 psychiatric in-and out-patients, two studies on the test retest stability of the TCI in clinical and nonclinical samples, and a validation study of a computerized version in psychiatric patients. The TCI can be used in various clinical and research domains, including anxiety, affective, and addictive disorders.