Criterion Validity and Relationships between Alternative Hierarchical Dimensional Models of General and Specific Psychopathology

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Psychopathology can be viewed as a hierarchy of correlated dimensions. Many studies have supported this conceptualization, but they have used alternative statistical models with differing interpretations. In bifactor models, every symptom loads on both the general factor and one specific factor (e.g., internalizing), which partitions the total explained variance in each symptom between these ort...

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• Age Factors
• Causality
• Classification
• Mental Disorders
• Models, Psychological
• Multivariate Analysis
• Sex Factors
• Social Environment

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97d3d2ad-3454-55f0-a105-7d9102de5504

DOI

10.1101/2020.04.27.064303