A broad internalizing dimension accounts for the genetic associations between personality and individual internalizing disorders.

ABSTRACT: Much research has demonstrated that psychopathology can be described in terms of broad dimensions, representing liability for multiple psychiatric disorders. Broad spectra of psychopathology (e.g., internalizing and externalizing) are increasingly used as targets for research investigating the development, etiology, and course of psychopathology because they account for patterns of relatedness among disorders that were once presumed distinct. Thus, these spectra represent alluring targets due to their comprehensive and parsimonious nature. Nevertheless, little research has established the role of individual disorders over and above broad dimensions in the study of psychopathology. In the current study, we investigate whether there are unique etiological associations between individual inte

SUBMITTER: Poore HE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9639848 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature