TY - JOUR
T1 - Correlates of a general psychopathology factor in a clinical sample of childhood sexual abuse survivors
AU - Hyland, Philip
AU - Murphy, Jamie
AU - Shevlin, Mark
AU - Carey, Steven
AU - Vallières, Frédérique
AU - Murphy, David
AU - Elklit, Ask
PY - 2018/5
Y1 - 2018/5
N2 - Background: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) increases risk for most psychiatric disorders. There is evidence thatthe structure of psychopathology can be explained by a number of latent dimensions of psychopathology includinga ‘General Psychopathology’ (P) factor. The objective of the current study was to provide the firstassessment as to whether P is identifiable, and what its correlates might be in a clinical sample.Methods: An adult, clinical sample of Danish CSA survivors (N = 420) was assessed using the Millon ClinicalMultiaxial Inventory-III. Confirmatory factory analysis (CFA) was used to assess the latent structure of ninepsychiatric disorders, and structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to determine correlates of the bestfittingdimensional model.Results: CFA results favoured a bifactor model including three specific dimensions of psychopathology,“Internalizing”, “Externalizing”, and “Thought Disorder”, and a bi-factor “P”. A SEM model that included tenpredictors was a good fit to the data and explained 55% of variance in ‘P’. The ‘P’ factor was significantlyassociated with emotional coping, negative self-worth, traumatic life events, and anxious attachments.Limitations: Psychiatric disorders were assessed using self-report measures, and the sample was predominatelyfemale.Conclusions: Results provide initial evidence of P in a clinical sample and several unique correlates of this factorwere identified.
AB - Background: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) increases risk for most psychiatric disorders. There is evidence thatthe structure of psychopathology can be explained by a number of latent dimensions of psychopathology includinga ‘General Psychopathology’ (P) factor. The objective of the current study was to provide the firstassessment as to whether P is identifiable, and what its correlates might be in a clinical sample.Methods: An adult, clinical sample of Danish CSA survivors (N = 420) was assessed using the Millon ClinicalMultiaxial Inventory-III. Confirmatory factory analysis (CFA) was used to assess the latent structure of ninepsychiatric disorders, and structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to determine correlates of the bestfittingdimensional model.Results: CFA results favoured a bifactor model including three specific dimensions of psychopathology,“Internalizing”, “Externalizing”, and “Thought Disorder”, and a bi-factor “P”. A SEM model that included tenpredictors was a good fit to the data and explained 55% of variance in ‘P’. The ‘P’ factor was significantlyassociated with emotional coping, negative self-worth, traumatic life events, and anxious attachments.Limitations: Psychiatric disorders were assessed using self-report measures, and the sample was predominatelyfemale.Conclusions: Results provide initial evidence of P in a clinical sample and several unique correlates of this factorwere identified.
KW - p-factor
KW - internalising
KW - externalising
KW - Childhood sexual abuse (CSA)
KW - CFA
U2 - 10.1016/j.jad.2018.02.048
DO - 10.1016/j.jad.2018.02.048
M3 - Article
C2 - 29481994
SN - 1573-2517
VL - 232
SP - 109
EP - 115
JO - Journal of Affective Disorders
JF - Journal of Affective Disorders
ER -