Background Comorbidity between psychopathologies may be attributed to genetic and environmental differences people as well causal processes within individuals, where one pathology increases risk for another. Disentangling between-person (co)variance from within-person of psychopathology dimensions across childhood shed light on developmental causes comorbid mental health problems. Here, we aim ...

Shortcomings of approaches to classifying psychopathology based on expert consensus have given rise contemporary efforts classify quantitatively. In this paper, we review progress in achieving a quantitative and empirical classification psychopathology. A substantial literature indicates that is generally more dimensional than categorical. When the discreteness versus continuity treated as rese...

Studies of people with eating disorders (ED) have indicated that meaning in life is negatively associated psychopathology, suicide risk, and emotional instability ED. The aim this study was to analyze the mediating role its dimensions relationship between body dissatisfaction symptoms ED, provide evidence supports making model (MESTA, Spanish). 292 Participants diagnosed ED completed Purpose Li...

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that various types of childhood maltreatment frequently co-occur and confer risk for multiple psychiatric diagnoses. This non-specific pattern of risk may mean that childhood maltreatment increases vulnerability to numerous specific psychiatric disorders through diverse, specific mechanisms or that childhood maltreatment engenders a generalised liability to...

BACKGROUND We investigated to what degree environmental exposure (childhood trauma, urbanicity, cannabis use, and discrimination) impacts symptom connectivity using both continuous and categorical measures of psychopathology. METHODS Outcomes were continuous symptom dimensions of self-reported psychopathology using the Self-report Symptom Checklist-90-R in 3021 participants from The Early Dev...

This study aimed to investigate whether dimensional constructs of psychopathology relate variation in patterns brain development and determine these share common neurodevelopmental profiles. Psychiatric symptom ratings from 9312 youths (8–21 years old) the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort were parsed into 7 independent dimensions clinical representing conduct, anxiety, obsessive-compulsiv...

The Wisconsin Schizotypy Scales (WSS) are widely used for assessing schizotypy. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) indicates that a two-factor structure, positive and negative schizotypy, underlies these scales. Recently developed 15-item short forms of the WSS demonstrated good reliability and validity. This study examined the factor structure underlying the short-form WSS. Consistent with the...