A large body of research has emerged over the last decade examining empirical models of
general and specific psychopathology, which take into account comorbidity among …

Mental disorder classification provides a definitional framework that underlies applied
clinical and research efforts to understand, assess, predict, prevent and ameliorate the …

The applied social science literature using factor and network models continues to grow
rapidly. Most work reads like an exercise in model fitting, and falls short of theory building …

There is an ongoing revolution in psychology and psychiatry that will likely change how we
conceptualize, study and treat psychological problems. Many theorists now support viewing …

Researchers often study constructs that are conceptually and/or empirically related, but
distinct (ie,“sibling constructs”). In social-personality psychology, as well as psychology more …

Co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders is well documented. Recent quantitative efforts have
moved toward an understanding of this phenomenon, with the general psychopathology or p …

Partialing is a statistical approach researchers use with the goal of removing extraneous
variance from a variable before examining its association with other variables. Controlling …

Metacognition is the ability to reflect on our own cognition and mental states. It is a critical
aspect of human subjective experience and operates across many hierarchical levels of …

In Fried (this issue), I argue that a lot of work in the social sciences generally—and in
psychology specifically—reads like an exercise in statistical model fitting, and falls short of …

The p-factor is a construct that is thought to explain and maybe even cause variation in all
forms of psychopathology. Since its 'discovery'in 2012, hundreds of studies have been …