Abstract The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory–Trait version (STAI-T) was developed to measure
an individual's tendency to experience anxiety, but it may lack discriminant evidence of …

In both child and adult psychiatry, empirical evidence has now accrued to suggest that a
single dimension is able to measure a person's liability to mental disorder, comorbidity …

The reliability and validity of traditional taxonomies are limited by arbitrary boundaries
between psychopathology and normality, often unclear boundaries between disorders …

Shortcomings of approaches to classifying psychopathology based on expert consensus
have given rise to contemporary efforts to classify psychopathology quantitatively. In this …

The narcissism spectrum model synthesizes extensive personality, social–psychological,
and clinical evidence, building on existing knowledge about narcissistic grandiosity and …

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a scientific effort to address
shortcomings of traditional mental disorder diagnoses, which suffer from arbitrary …

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 …

Abstract The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), developed by the National Institute of
Mental Health as a neuroscience-informed alternative to traditional psychiatric nosology, is …

Importance Psychiatric diagnoses are currently distinguished based on sets of specific
symptoms. However, genetic and clinical analyses find similarities across a wide variety of …

We propose a taxonomy of psychopathology based on patterns of shared causal influences
identified in a review of multivariate behavior genetic studies that distinguish genetic and …