ArticleResearch on child and adolescent psychopathology2023
Processing Speed is Related to the General Psychopathology Factor in Youth.
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- "P factor" could open an important window on core attributes of mental health maladies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Contributions of Working Memory, Inhibition, and Processing Speed to Writing Composition in Attention-Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder.Developmental neuropsychologyArticle
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Abstract
The relationship between the p factor and cognition in youth has largely focused on general cognition (IQ) and executive functions (EF). Another cognitive construct, processing speed (PS), is dissociable from IQ and EF, but has received less research attention despite being related to many different mental health symptoms. The present sample included 795 youth, ages 11-16 from the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center (CLDRC) sample. Confirmatory factor analyses tested multiple p factor models, with the primary model being a second-order, multi-reporter p factor. We then tested the correlation between the p factor and a latent PS factor. There was a significant, negative correlation between the p factor and PS (r(87) = -0.42, p < .001), indicating that slower processing speed is associated with higher general mental health symptoms. This association is stronger than previously reported associations with IQ or EF. This finding was robust across models that used different raters (youth and caregiver) and modeling approaches (second-order vs. bifactor). Our findings indicate that PS is related to general psychopathology symptoms. This research points to processing speed as an important transdiagnostic construct that warrants further exploration across development.
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