The Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32)
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Angst, J., Adolfsson, R., Benazzi, F., Gamma, A., Hantouche, E., Meyer, T. D., et al. (2005). The HCL-32: Towards a self-assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms in outpatients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 88(2), 217-233.
YES or NO
Please try to remember a period when you were in a “high” state. How did you feel then?
Please answer all these statements independently of your present condition.
1. I need less sleep
2. I feel more energetic and more active
3. I am more self-confident
4. I enjoy my work more
5. I am more sociable (make more phone calls, go out more)
6. I want to travel and/or do travel more
7. I tend to drive faster or take more risks when driving
8. I spend more money/too much money
9. I take more risks in my daily life (in my work and/or other activities)
10. I am physically more active (sport etc.)
11. I plan more activities or projects
12. I have more ideas, I am more creative
13. I am less shy or inhibited
14. I wear more colorful and more extravagant clothes/make-up
15. I want to meet or actually do meet more people
16. I am more interested in sex, and/or have increased sexual desire
17. I am more flirtatious and/or am more sexually active
18. I talk more
19. I think faster
20. I make more jokes or puns when I am talking
21. I am more easily distracted
22. I engage in lots of new things
23. My thoughts jump from topic to topic
24. I do things more quickly and/or more easily
25. I am more impatient and/or get irritable more easily
26. I can be exhausting or irritating for others
27. I get into more quarrels
28. My mood is higher, more optimistic
29. I drink more coffee
30. I smoke more cigarettes
31. I drink more alcohol
32. I take more drugs (sedatives, anxiolytics, stimulants...)
Cronbach's alpha coefficient ranged from 0.72 to 0.86
Convergent validity. HCL is highly related to the Mood Disorder Questionnaire in Carta, M. G., Hardoy, M. C., Cadeddu, M., Murru, A., Campus, A., Morosini, P. L., et al. (2006). The accuracy of the italian version of the hypomania checklist (HCL-32) for the screening of bipolar disorders and comparison with the mood disorder questionnaire (MDQ) in a clinical sample. Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health : CP & EMH, 2, 2.
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Angst, J., Adolfsson, R., Benazzi, F., Gamma, A., Hantouche, E., Meyer, T. D., et al. (2005). The HCL-32: Towards a self-assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms in outpatients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 88(2), 217-233.
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