Is cognition integral to psychopathology? A population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lower cognitive functioning has been documented across psychiatric disorders and hypothesized to be a core deficit of mental disorders. Situating psychopathology and cognition as part of a unitary construct is therefore important to understanding the etiology of psychiatric disorders. The current study aims to test competing structural models of psychopathology and cognition in a large national cohort of adolescents.

Methods

The analytic sample consisted of 1189 participants aged 16-17 years, screened by the Israeli Draft Board. Psychopathology was assessed using a modified version of the Brief Symptom Inventory, and cognition was assessed based on four standardized test scores ((1) mathematical reasoning, concentration, and concept manipulation; (2) visual-spatia

SUBMITTER: Rotstein A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10719669 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature