Open AccessThe “Big Everything”: Integrating and investigating dimensional models of psychopathology, personality, personality pathology, and cognitive functioning.
Author(s) -
Andrew K. Littlefield,
Sean P. Lane,
Jordan A. Gette,
Ashley L. Watts,
Kenneth J. Sher
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
personality disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.864
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1949-2715
pISSN - 1949-2723
DOI - 10.1037/per0000457
Subject(s) - personality , personality pathology , psychopathology , psychology , structural equation modeling , cognition , psycinfo , hierarchical structure of the big five , clinical psychology , personality disorders , personality assessment inventory , pathological , big five personality traits , big five personality traits and culture , psychiatry , social psychology , medicine , medline , pathology , statistics , mathematics , political science , law
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 indicators. Only a self-report measure of cognitive functioning loaded significantly onto the Big Everything. This study highlights concerns in the pursuit of identifying and reifying common factors based on the modeling of residual variances and limitations of using factor modeling to determine the structure of psychologically relevant phenomena. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).