A critical evaluation of the p-factor literature

AL Watts, AL Greene, W Bonifay, EI Fried - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2024 - nature.com
The p-factor is a construct that is thought to explain and maybe even cause variation in all
forms of psychopathology. Since its 'discovery'in 2012, hundreds of studies have been …

[HTML][HTML] Is executive dysfunction a risk marker or consequence of psychopathology? A test of executive function as a prospective predictor and outcome of general …

AL Romer, DA Pizzagalli - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract A general psychopathology ('p') factor captures shared variation across mental
disorders. One hypothesis is that poor executive function (EF) contributes to p. Although EF …

The general factor of psychopathology (p): Choosing among competing models and interpreting p

A Caspi, RM Houts, HL Fisher… - Clinical …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past 10 years, the general factor of psychopathology, p, has attracted interest and
scrutiny. We review the history of the idea that all mental disorders share something in …

Threat and deprivation are associated with distinct aspects of cognition, emotional processing, and psychopathology in children and adolescents

JL Schäfer, KA McLaughlin, GG Manfro… - Developmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure to childhood adversity has been consistently associated with poor developmental
outcomes, but it is unclear whether these associations vary across different forms of …

Genetic patterning for child psychopathology is distinct from that for adults and implicates fetal cerebellar development

DE Hughes, K Kunitoki, S Elyounssi, M Luo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Childhood psychiatric symptoms are often diffuse but can coalesce into discrete mental
illnesses during late adolescence. We leveraged polygenic scores (PGSs) to parse genomic …

Three recommendations based on a comparison of the reliability and validity of the predominant models used in research on the empirical structure of …

MK Forbes, AL Greene… - Journal of Abnormal …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 131 (7) of Journal
of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (see record 2023-07860-001). In the article, Figure …

Differentiated nomological networks of internalizing, externalizing, and the general factor of psychopathology ('p factor') in emerging adolescence in the ABCD study

SJ Brislin, ME Martz, S Joshi, ER Duval… - Psychological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
BackgroundStructural models of psychopathology consistently identify internalizing (INT)
and externalizing (EXT) specific factors as well as a superordinate factor that captures their …

Reliability and validity of bifactor models of dimensional psychopathology in youth.

M Scopel Hoffmann, TM Moore… - … and Clinical Science, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Bifactor models are a promising strategy to parse general from specific aspects of
psychopathology in youth. Currently, there are multiple configurations of bifactor models …

How robust is the p factor? Using multitrait-multimethod modeling to inform the meaning of general factors of youth psychopathology

AL Watts, BA Makol, IM Palumbo… - Clinical …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We used multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) modeling to examine general factors of
psychopathology in three samples of youths (N s= 2,119, 303, and 592) for whom three …

Comparing two measures of neighborhood quality and internalizing and externalizing behaviors in the adolescent brain cognitive development study

L Beyer, R Keen, KA Ertel, SS Okuzono… - Social psychiatry and …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose There is widespread recognition of the importance and complexity of measuring
neighborhood contexts within research on child psychopathology. In this study, we assessed …