TY - JOUR
T1 - The “Big Everything”
T2 - Integrating and investigating dimensional models of psychopathology, personality, personality pathology, and cognitive functioning.
AU - Littlefield, Andrew K.
AU - Lane, Sean P.
AU - Gette, Jordan A.
AU - Watts, Ashley L.
AU - Sher, Kenneth J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Sponsor name not included
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Psychological Association
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - 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)
AB - 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)
KW - bifactor model
KW - intelligence
KW - p factor
KW - personality
KW - psychopathology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090587734&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/per0000457
DO - 10.1037/per0000457
M3 - Article
C2 - 32915005
AN - SCOPUS:85090587734
VL - 12
SP - 103
EP - 114
JO - Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
JF - Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
SN - 1949-2715
IS - 2
ER -