Big five personality traits and common mental disorders within a hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology: A longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth. Mann, F. D., Atherton, O. E., DeYoung, C. G., Krueger, R. F., & Robins, R. W. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2020.
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The present study: (1) tested whether a structure of common mental disorders within the hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology was invariant from late childhood to adolescence in a sample of Mexican-origin youth, (2) examined the developmental course of psychopathology at different levels of the hierarchy, and (3) tested the degree to which changes in psychopathology were associated with changes in the Big Five personality domains. Results were consistent with the longitudinal hierarchical invariance of common mental disorders from age 12 to 17 ( n = 674). Further, initial levels of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability were positively associated with lower initial levels of a higher-order factor of psychopathology, and increases in extraversion and decreases in neuroticism were associated with decreases in a higher-order factor of psychopathology, which captured the general tendency for externalizing, internalizing, and attention-hyperactivity-related dimensions of psychopathology to correlate.
@article{MannAthertonDeYoungKruegerRobins,
author = {Mann, F. D., Atherton, O. E., DeYoung, C. G., Krueger, R. F., Robins, R. W.},
journal = {Journal of Abnormal Psychology},
abstract = {The present study: (1) tested whether a structure of common mental disorders within the hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology was invariant from late childhood to adolescence in a sample of Mexican-origin youth, (2) examined the developmental course of psychopathology at different levels of the hierarchy, and (3) tested the degree to which changes in psychopathology were associated with changes in the Big Five personality domains. Results were consistent with the longitudinal hierarchical invariance of common mental disorders from age 12 to 17 (  n  = 674). Further, initial levels of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability were positively associated with lower initial levels of a higher-order factor of psychopathology, and increases in extraversion and decreases in neuroticism were associated with decreases in a higher-order factor of psychopathology, which captured the general tendency for externalizing, internalizing, and attention-hyperactivity-related dimensions of psychopathology to correlate.},
pages = {769-787}, 
title = {Big five personality traits and common mental disorders within a hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology: A longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth},
year = {2020}
}

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