Von Stumm, Sophie orcid.org/0000-0002-0447-5471, Malanchini, Margherita and Fisher, Helen L. (2023) The developmental interplay between the p-factor of psychopathology and the g-factor of intelligence from age 7 through 16 years. Development and psychopathology. ISSN 1469-2198
Abstract
Intelligence and mental health are the core pillars of individual adaptation, growth, and opportunity. Here, we charted across childhood and adolescence the developmental interplay between the p-factor of psychopathology, which captures the experience of symptoms across the spectrum of psychiatric disorders, and the g-factor of general intelligence that describes the ability to think, reason, and learn. Our preregistered analyses included 7,433 twin pairs from the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), who were born 1994 to 1996 in England and Wales. At the ages 7, 9, 12, and 16 years, the twins completed two to four intelligence tests, and multi-informant measures (i.e., self-, parent- and teacher-rated) of psychopathology were collected. Independent of their cross-sectional correlations, p- and g-factors were linked by consistent, bidirectional, and negative cross-lagged paths across childhood and adolescence (from -.07 to -.13 with 95% CIs from -.03 to -.15). The cross-lagged paths from intelligence to psychopathology were largely due to genetic influences, but the paths from psychopathology to intelligence were driven by environmental factors, and increasingly so with age. Our findings suggest that intelligence and psychopathology are developmentally intertwined due to fluctuating etiological processes. Understanding the interplay of g- and p-factors is key for improving children's developmental outcomes.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing contribution of the participants in the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) and their families. TEDS is supported by the UK Medical Research Council (MR/V012878/1 and previously MR/M021475/1), with additional support from the US National Institutes of Health (AG046938). SvS is supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2022), a CRISP Fellowship from the Jacobs Foundation (2022–2027), and by the Nuffield Foundation (EDO/44110). HLF is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London (ES/S012567/1). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Economic and Social Research Council or King’s College London. |
Keywords: | adolescence,childhood,cross-lagged twin model,intelligence,p-factor |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Education (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2024 08:50 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:53 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942300069X |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S095457942300069X |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:211140 |
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