- Author
- Date
- 12-2017
- Title
- What is the p-factor of psychopathology? Some risks of general factor modeling
- Journal
- Theory and Psychology
- Volume | Issue number
- 27 | 6
- Pages (from-to)
- 759-773
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
- Institute
- Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
- Abstract
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Recent research has suggested that a range of psychological disorders may stem from a single underlying common factor, which has been dubbed the p-factor. This finding may spur a line of research in psychopathology very similar to the history of factor modeling in intelligence and, more recently, personality research, in which similar general factors have been proposed. We point out some of the risks of modeling and interpreting general factors, derived from the fields of intelligence and personality research. We argue that: (a) factor-analytic resolution, i.e., convergence of the literature on a particular factor structure, should not be expected in the presence of multiple highly similar models; and (b) the true underlying model may not be a factor model at all, because alternative explanations can account for the correlational structure of psychopathology.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Other links
- Link to publication in Scopus
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/879b8d45-4156-4202-b767-8c4a9c21f6a8
- Downloads
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