The total sample included 387 nonclinical individuals from Spain (128 males). The mean age was 21.86 (SD = 5.11; range 18–46 years). The ACIPS and the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) were used.
Exploratory factor analysis yielded a three-factor solution which explained 79.1% of the variance (Intimate Social Interactions, social bonding in the context of media/communications, and casual socialization). The total ACIPS showed good internal consistency, estimated with ordinal alpha was 0.92, ranging from 0.76 to 0.84 for the subscales. The participants who reported a minimal to low level of depressive symptoms had significantly higher total ACIPS scores than the participants who reported experiencing moderate to severe levels of depressive symptoms. Total scores on the ACIPS were negatively associated with scores on the BDI-II (r = −0.22, p < 0.001). Participants with a family history reported significantly lower total ACIPS scores than those without a family history of schizophrenia.
The present results showed that the Spanish version of the ACIPS scores had adequate psychometric properties. The ACIPS may be useful in terms of helping to elucidate the ways in which individual differences in hedonic capacity for social and interpersonal relationships relates meaningfully to risk for various forms of psychopathology.