General Factors of Psychopathology, Personality, and Personality Disorder: Across Domain Comparisons

Joshua R. Oltmanns; Gregory T. Smith; Thomas F. Oltmanns; Thomas A. Widiger

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General Factors of Psychopathology, Personality, and Personality Disorder: Across Domain Comparisons

Joshua R. Oltmanns, Gregory T. Smith, Thomas F. Oltmanns, Thomas A. Widiger

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Abstract

Three separate and distinct literatures exist investigating general factors of psychopathology (p factor), personality (general factor of personality, GFP), and personality disorder (g-PD). Surprisingly, there has been little to no investigation regarding the convergence of these three distinct general factors. In the present investigation, two studies were conducted examining the convergence of the p factor, GFP, and g-PD. In Study 1, a combined model extracting all three factors from self-report data simultaneously found high convergence. The findings for the g-PD and GFP were replicated in Study 2 using multimethod data, wherein the GFP and the g-PD were extracted from a community sample of 1,630 older adults and correlated with an index of maladaptivity. The present findings support the position that general factors of psychopathology, personality disorder, and personality are likely to entail a common individual differences continuum, which may impact on how these general factors are to be understood.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	581-589
Number of pages	9
Journal	Clinical Psychological Science
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702617750150
State	Published - Jul 1 2018

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This research was supported by National Institute on Aging Grants F31-AG055233 and R01-AG045231 and by National Institute of Mental Health Grant R01-MH077840. We thank the St. Louis Personality & Aging Network (SPAN) Study Lab for data collection, Michael Boudreaux for data management, and David Dueber and Michael Toland for statistical consultation. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. This research was supported by National Institute on Aging Grants F31-AG055233 and R01-AG045231 and by National Institute of Mental Health Grant R01-MH077840.

Funders	Funder number
University of Missouri – St. Louis
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Mental Health	R01-MH077840
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute on Aging	R01-AG045231, F31-AG055233
National Institute on Aging

Keywords

dimensional vs. categorical
individual differences
personality
personality disorder
psychopathology

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Clinical Psychology

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