The present paper focuses on the trait domain of conscientiousness, its development, and its relation to psychopathology. The definition of conscientiousness and its interface with specific forms of psychopathology, such as externalizing psychopathology, are discussed first. Then an overview of the known developmental changes in conscientiousness across the life course is provided, as well as t...

The often-reported low informant agreement about child psychopathology between multiple informants has lead to various suggestions about how to address discrepant ratings. Among the factors that may lower agreement that have been discussed is informant credibility, reliability, or psychopathology, which is of interest in this paper. We tested three different models, namely, the accuracy, the di...

We investigated possible pathways into mental illness via the combined effects of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI), mindfulness, and irrational beliefs. The sample comprised 121 psychiatric outpatients (64.5% males, mean age = 38.8 years) with a variety of formal clinical diagnoses. Psychopathology was operationalized by means of 3 distinct indicators from the Millon Clinical Multi-Axial...

BACKGROUND Psychopathology among adolescents has become a global concern in the last decade. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify the predictors of psychopathology among adolescents in Ibadan region using a multi-theoretical approach. METHODS Eight hundred and eighty-nine (889) male and female adolescents drawn from different parts of Ibadan region of the South-West Nigeria, part...

In 1984, Dante Cicchetti published ?The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology,? an article in which he argued that the previously amorphous study of developmental psychopathology was emerging as a unified discipline. According to Cicchetti, developmental psychopathology describes an interdisciplinary field that studies abnormalities in psychological function that can arise during human dev...

Four different models have been generally proposed as plausible etiological explanations for the relation between personality and psychopathology, namely, the vulnerability, complication, pathoplasty, and spectrum or continuity model. The current study entails a joint investigation of the continuity, pathoplasty, and complication models to explain the nature of the associations between early ma...

The network theory conceptualizes mental disorders as causally connected symptom systems rather than effects of a superordinate and unknowable illness, otherwise called latent. Network analysis, statistical technique designed to identify structures among psychiatric symptoms from empirical data, has been widely used in eating disorders. Three these studies have conducted on patients with anorex...

EDITORIAL article Front. Psychiatry, 08 August 2023Sec. Psychopathology Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1252739

CORRECTION article Front. Psychiatry, 24 July 2023Sec. Psychopathology Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1257713

According to the two continua model of mental health, psychopathology and positive mental health (emotional, psychological, and social well-being) are related but distinct continua. This study investigates the two continua model by examining whether psychopathology and positive mental health show differential associations with the Big Five personality traits. The paper draws on data of the repr...