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Magnitude Without Direction: A Representational Limit on the General Factor of Psychopathology

2026-08-25

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The general factor of psychopathology, p, orders people on a broad dimension of psychiatric burden and predicts impairment, developmental risk, and other adverse outcomes. Debate has focused on which latent-variable structure best recovers p, but comparative fit cannot resolve that question cleanly because bifactor models possess high fitting propensity. This article identifies a prior problem at measurement. Many...

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DOI: 10.20944/preprints202608.1736.v1

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