Open AccessThe breadth and potency of transdiagnostic cognitive risks for psychopathology in youth.
Author(s) -
Tina H. Schweizer,
Hannah R. Snyder,
Jami F. Young,
Benjamin L. Hankin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of consulting and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.582
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1939-2117
pISSN - 0022-006X
DOI - 10.1037/ccp0000470
Subject(s) - psychology , psychopathology , cognition , dysfunctional family , clinical psychology , cognitive vulnerability , cognitive style , psycinfo , anxiety , developmental psychology , psychiatry , depressive symptoms , medline , political science , law
Multiple cognitive risks from different theoretical paradigms (dysfunctional attitudes, negative inferential style, self-criticism, dependency, brooding) predict depression, but may be transdiagnostic vulnerabilities for multiple psychopathologies. Risk factors can be identified as broadly transdiagnostic and relatively specific to psychopathological outcomes by organizing the common and specific aspects of each respective construct using latent bifactor models, and by examining links between dimensions of risk and psychopathology. This study evaluated (a) whether a bifactor model of cognitive vulnerabilities, including a general cognitive risk dimension (c factor) and several specific dimensions replicated in early adolescents ( M age = 13.50 years) and extended to younger and older youth, and (b) how the general and specific cognitive risk dimensions related to the general psychopathology (p factor) and internalizing- and externalizing-specific dimensions.