Personality Vulnerabilities to Psychopathology: Relations Between Trait Structure and Affective-Cognitive Processes

Personality Vulnerabilities

Bibliographic Data

ID22722147
AuthorsRyan Y Hong (0000-0003-0450-5930, National University of Singapore, corresponding author), Sampo V Paunonen (Western University)
Year2011
Volume79
Issue3
Pages527-562
Publication date2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Personality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00683.x
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited69

The present research examined (a) the relations among various affective-cognitive vulnerabilities to psychopathology, (b) the relations between vulnerabilities and dispositional traits, and (c) the mediating role of vulnerabilities between dispositional traits and psychopathological symptoms. Self-report questionnaires were administered to two independent samples in Study 1 (total N=274), whereas a longitudinal experience-sampling method was employed in Study 2 (N=100). All samples consisted of college students. Results suggested that affective-cognitive vulnerabilities showed a pattern of intercorrelations consistent with a 2-factor model representing general vulnerability to internalizing and externalizing psychopathology, respectively. The vulnerabilities also revealed common and unique aspects when mapped onto the trait structure represented by the Five-Factor Model. Most important, affective-cognitive vulnerabilities were found to constitute proximal-specific mechanisms that mediated between distal-broad dispositional vulnerabilities, such as Neuroticism, and different psychopathological symptoms. Our data support a model of personality-psychopathology relations that benefits from an integration of both the dispositional trait and social-cognitive approaches.

Big Five personality traits · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Experience sampling method · Neuroticism · Personality · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Trait · Vulnerability (computing) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology

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