“General Psychopathology Factor Explains Over Half of Reliable Variance in Childhood to Adolescence Symptoms, Study Finds”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38112921

This study’s findings, published in the Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, indicate that a general psychopathology factor, measured by explained common variance, explains over half of the reliable variance in symptoms of psychopathology across childhood to adolescence, with its strength remaining stable during this developmental period.