The "Big Everything": Integrating and investigating dimensional models of psychopathology, personality, personality pathology, and cognitive functioning.

ABSTRACT: Common factors are increasingly used to model the structure of psychopathology ("p"), personality (General Factor of Personality [GFP]), pathological personality (General Factor of Pathological Personality [GFPP]), and intelligence ("g"). Using 4 waves spanning ages 18-29 in a cohort of college students (baseline n = 489), this study used indicators of psychopathology, personality, pathological personality, and cognitive functioning to compare models that included Cognitive Functioning, p, GFP, GFPP, and a "Big Everything" factor (which included cross-domain measures as indicators). GFP, GFPP, and p exhibited substantial overlap, and the Big Everything factor accounted for considerable variance in psychopathology, personality, and pathological personality

SUBMITTER: Littlefield AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8318803 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature