The HiTOP Personality Work Group studies how personality and mental health problems are connected. We examine where normal differences in how people think, feel, and behave overlap with psychopathology, as well as what makes them distinct. Our goal is to better understand how mental health difficulties relate to the full range of everyday psychological functioning.
Whitney Ringwald & Susan C. South
Ringwald (left), South (right)
Aaron Lee Pincus
Aidan Wright
Alec Christopher Trahan
Avshalom Caspi
Colin DeYoung
Donald R Lynam
Douglas B Samuel
Gina Rossi
Jennifer Tackett
Joshua D Miller
Kasey Stanton
Kevin King
Kristian Markon
Martin Sellbom
Mirko Uljarevic
Nicholas Eaton
Robert Krueger
Roman Kotov
Stephanie Sweatt
Thomas A Widiger
Kotov, R., Ringwald, W. R., & HiTOP Normal Personality Workgroup (in press). The role of personality in psychiatry: insights from the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). World Psychiatry.
Adler, J. M., & Clark, L. A. (2019). Incorporating narrative identity into structural approaches to personality and psychopathology. Journal of Research in Personality, 82, 103857.
Brandes, C. M., & Tackett, J. L. (2019). Contextualizing neuroticism in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 238-245. Preprint
Conway, C. C., Li, Y. I., & Starr, L. R. (2019). Trait anhedonia is a transdiagnostic correlate of internalizing problems during adolescence. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 56-63.
Eaton, N. R. (2020). Measurement and mental health disparities: Psychopathology classification and identity assessment. Personality and Mental Health, 14(1), 76-87.
DeYoung, C. G., Chmielewski, M., Clark, L. A., Condon, D. M., Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., Lynam, D. R., Markon, K. E., Miller, J. D., Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Samuel, D. B., Sellbom, M., South, S. C., Thomas, K. M., Watson, D., Watts, A. L., Widiger, T. A., Wright, A. G. C. & the HiTOP Normal Personality Workgroup. (2022). The distinction between symptoms and traits in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). Journal of Personality, 90, 20-33. Full text
Kotelnikova, Y., Weaver, C. A., & Clark, L. A. (2019). The joint structure of maladaptive personality traits and psychopathology. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 64-71
Lynam, D. R., & Miller, J. D. (2019). The basic trait of Antagonism: An unfortunately underappreciated construct. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 118-126. Preprint
Laceulle, O. M., Chung, J. M., Vollebergh, W. A., & Ormel, J. (2020). The wide‐ranging life outcome correlates of a general psychopathology factor in adolescent psychopathology. Personality and Mental Health, 14(1), 9-29. Full text
Longenecker, J. M., Krueger, R. F., & Sponheim, S. R.(2020). Personality traits across the psychosis spectrum: A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology conceptualization of clinical symptomatology. Personality and Mental Health, 14(1), 88-105. Full text
Mullins‐Sweatt, S. N.,Hopwood, C. J., Chmielewski, M., Meyer, N. A., Min, J., Helle, A. C., & Walgren, M. D. (2020). Treatment of personality pathology through the lens of the hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology: Developing a research agenda. Personality and Mental Health, 14(1), 123-141. Full text
Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., DeShong, H. L., Lengel, G. J., Helle, A. C., & Krueger, R. F. (2019). Disinhibition as a unifying construct in understanding how personality dispositions undergird psychopathology. Journal of Research in Personality, 80, 55-61. Full text
Perkins, E. R., Latzman, R. D., & Patrick, C. J. (2020). Interfacing neural constructs with the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology: ‘Why' and ‘How'. Personality and Mental Health, 14(1), 106-122.
Ringwald, W. R., Beeney, J. E., Pilkonis, P. A., & Wright, A. G. (2019). Comparing hierarchical models of personality pathology. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 98-107. Full text
Sellbom, M., Carragher, N., Sunderland, M., Calear, A. L., & Batterham, P. J. (2020). The role of maladaptive personality domains across multiple levels of the HiTOP structure. Personality and Mental Health, 14(1), 30-50.
Watson, D., Stanton, K., Khoo, S., Ellickson-Larew, S., & Stasik-O'Brien, S. M. (2019). Extraversion and psychopathology: A multilevel hierarchical review. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 1-10.
Watson, D., & Clark, L. A. (2020). Personality traits as an organizing framework for personality pathology. Personality and Mental Health, 14(1),51-75. Full text
Watts, A. L., Poore, H. E., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Waldman, I. D. (2019). Clarifying the associations between big five personality domains and higher-order psychopathology dimensions in youth. Journal of Research in Personality, 82.
Widiger, T. A., Bach, B., Chmielewski, M., Clark, L. A., DeYoung, C., Hopwood, C. J., Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., Miller, J. D., Morey,L. C., Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Patrick, C. J., Pincus, A. L., Samuel, D. B.,Sellbom, M., South, S. C., Tackett, J. L., Watson, D., Waugh, M. H., Wright, A.G. C., Zimmermann, J., Bagby, R. M., Cicero, D. C., Conway, C. C., De Clercq,B., Docherty, A. R., Eaton, N. R., Forbush, K. T., Haltigan, J. D., Ivanova, M.Y., Latzman, R. D., Lynam, D. R., Markon, K. E., Reininghaus, U., & Thomas,K. M. (2019). Criterion A of the AMPD in HiTOP. Journal of Personality Assessment, 101, 345-355. Full text
Widiger, T. A., & Crego, C. (2019). HiTOP thought disorder, DSM-5 psychoticism, and Five Factor Model openness. Journal of Research in Personality, 80, 72-77.
Widiger, T. A., Sellbom, M., Chmielewski,, M., Clark, L. A., DeYoung, C. G., Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., Lynam, D. R., Miller, J. D., Mullins-Sweatt, S., Samuel, D. B., South, S. C., Tackett, J. L., Thomas, K. M., Watson, D., & Wright, A. G. C. (2019). Personality in a hierarchical model of psychopathology. Clinical Psychological Science, 7, 77-92 Preprint
1. Establishing Cutoff Points for Adaptive and Maladaptive Personality Trait Domains (project with Thomas A. Widiger)
2. Alternative Facet Models for the Five Factor Model of Personality (project with Stephanie Mullins-Sweatt)
