The Five-Factor Model of Personality and the Structure of Psychopathology in Adolescence

Abstract

Mental health problems are one of the main causes of disability in children and adolescents, where symptoms of anxiety, depression, behavior problems, hyperactivity and attention problems are the most frequently reported. For this reason, many studies have addressed these constructs in recent decades in an attempt to shed light on the structure of psychopathology and its possible predictor variables, including early personality traits.However, this field is constantly expanding and there are still unanswered questions, mainly in the non-adult population, about how these variables are related, the mechanisms that underlie these associations, and which theoretical models best explain the structure of psychopathology and its relation with personality traits.