Structure of Pathological Personality Traits Through the Lens of the CAT-PD Model.

ABSTRACT: Personality pathology is increasingly conceptualized within hierarchical, dimensional trait models. The Comprehensive Assessment of Traits Relevant to Personality Disorders (CAT-PD) is a pathological-trait measure with potential to improve on currently prevailing instruments because it has wider content coverage; however, its domain-level structure, which is of scientific and clinical interest, is not established. In this study, we investigated the structure and construct validity of the CAT-PD's domain level to facilitate wider use of the measure. We estimated five- and six-factor models with exploratory factor analysis in a pooled sample of eight independent subsamples (N = 3,987) and found that both models fit the data well; each had interpretable factors that were invariant acro

SUBMITTER: Ringwald WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10413206 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature