The General Psychopathology Factor: Structural Stability and Generalizability to Within-Individual Changes.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: Although cross-sectional investigations have found a bifactor structure of psychiatric comorbidity that includes a general psychopathology factor plus more specific factors, prospective evidence supporting the bifactor structure is still limited. We evaluated the structural stability (i.e., longitudinal invariance) of the bifactor model in comparison to an alternative structure, a correlated factors model without a general psychopathology factor. We also investigated the models' generalizability to change processes in psychopathology. Methods: The analyses were conducted on 10-year follow-up data from 5,001 respondents in the US National Comorbidity Survey. Invariance was evaluated through a series of nested invariance tests using confirmatory factor analysis, and the models' g

SUBMITTER: Gluschkoff K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6728891 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature