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Externalizing disorders: cluster 5 of the proposed meta-structure for DSM-V and ICD-11R F Krueger
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Psychol Med 39:2061-70. 2009..In an attempt to group mental disorders on the basis of etiology, five clusters have been proposed. We consider the validity of the fifth cluster, externalizing disorders, within this proposal...
The heritability of personality is not always 50%: gene-environment interactions and correlations between personality and parentingRobert F Krueger
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
J Pers 76:1485-522. 2008....- Delineating physiologic defensive reactivity in the domain of self-report: phenotypic and etiologic structure of dispositional fearM D Kramer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 32306 4301, USA
Psychol Med 42:1305-20. 2012..A documented neural substrate of fear-related traits and disorders is defensive reactivity as reflected in aversive startle potentiation (ASP)... - Genetic and environmental contributions to the diversity of substances used in adolescent twins: a longitudinal study of age and sex effectsJaime Derringer
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Addiction 103:1744-51. 2008..To determine how genetic and environmental contributions affecting the number of psychoactive substances used varies with age and gender over the course of adolescence... - Initial construction of a maladaptive personality trait model and inventory for DSM-5R F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Psychol Med 42:1879-90. 2012..Our goal was to provide a provisional trait model and a preliminary corresponding assessment instrument, in our roles as members of the DSM-5 Personality and Personality Disorders Workgroup and workgroup advisors... 
Phenotypic, genetic, and nonshared environmental parallels in the structure of personality: a view from the multidimensional personality questionnaireR F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 79:1057-67. 2000..The components from all three matrices were highly comparable, suggesting that the observed, phenotypic structure of personality corresponds closely with the underlying, etiological structure of personality...- Rural environments reduce the genetic influence on adolescent substance use and rule-breaking behaviorL N Legrand
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Psychol Med 38:1341-50. 2008..In this paper, we address whether rural environments moderate the genetic influence on adolescent substance use and rule-breaking behavior (i.e. externalizing psychopathology)... - Family transmission and heritability of externalizing disorders: a twin-family studyBrian M Hicks
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:922-8. 2004..A better understanding of the mechanisms of familial transmission for these "externalizing" disorders is necessary to better understand their etiology and to help develop intervention strategies... - Sources of covariation among attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder: the importance of shared environmentS A Burt
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 110:516-25. 2001..The results revealed that although each disorder was influenced by genetic and environmental factors, a single shared environmental factor made the largest contribution to the covariation among ADHD, ODD, and CD... - The extended genotype: the heritability of personality accounts for the heritability of recalled family environments in twins reared apartRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0344, USA
J Pers 71:809-33. 2003..In addition, differences in reared-apart twins' retrospectively recalled rearing environments appear to have little impact on differences in their personalities in adulthood... - Environmental contributions to adolescent delinquency: a fresh look at the shared environmentS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 107D Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:787-800. 2007..Such findings provide an important extension of previous twin studies, as they suggest that passive genotype-environment correlations do not explain earlier findings of shared environmental influences on this association... - Etiologic connections among substance dependence, antisocial behavior, and personality: modeling the externalizing spectrumRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455 0344, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 111:411-24. 2002..These results reconcile evidence for general and specific causal factors within the externalizing spectrum and offer the externalizing factor as a novel target for future research... - Adolescent personality moderates genetic and environmental influences on relationships with parentsSusan C South
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 94:899-912. 2008..These findings support the importance of adolescent personality in the development of the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship... - Altruism and antisocial behavior: independent tendencies, unique personality correlates, distinct etiologiesR F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, USA
Psychol Sci 12:397-402. 2001.... - Factorial invariance of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale across genderSusan C South
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
Psychol Assess 21:622-8. 2009.... - Capturing abnormal personality with normal personality inventories: an item response theory approachKate E Walton
Department of Psychology, St John s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY11439, USA
J Pers 76:1623-48. 2008..Moreover, both types of inventories were limited in terms of measurement bandwidth, such that they did not provide information across the entire latent trait continuum. Implications and future directions are discussed... - How are parent-child conflict and childhood externalizing symptoms related over time? Results from a genetically informative cross-lagged studyS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Dev Psychopathol 17:145-65. 2005..These results suggest a "downward spiral" of interplay between parent-child conflict and EXT, and offer confirmation of a (partially) environmentally mediated effect of parenting on child behavior... - A genome-wide association study of alcohol dependenceLaura J Bierut
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:5082-7. 2010..11 and 1.16. Further dissection of the alcoholism phenotype, to disentangle the influence of comorbid substance-use disorders, will be a next step in identifying genetic variants associated with alcohol dependence... - Modeling the impact of age and sex on a dimension of poly-substance use in adolescence: a longitudinal study from 11- to 17-years-oldJaime Derringer
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 110:193-9. 2010..This suggests that measurement and interpretation of adolescent substance use is enhanced by the consideration of a wide range of substances... - Incorporating age at onset of smoking into genetic models for nicotine dependence: evidence for interaction with multiple genesRichard A Grucza
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Addict Biol 15:346-57. 2010..Incorporation of logically chosen interaction parameters, such as AOS, into genetic models of substance use disorders may increase the degree of explained phenotypic variation and constitutes a promising avenue for gene discovery... - The emerging link between alcoholism risk and obesity in the United StatesRichard A Grucza
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:1301-8. 2010..The prevalence of obesity has risen sharply in the United States in the past few decades. Etiologic links between obesity and substance use disorders have been hypothesized... - Parent-child conflict and the comorbidity among childhood externalizing disordersS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:505-13. 2003..Our goals were to determine whether parent-child conflict was associated with the comorbidity among ADHD, CD, and ODD, and to explicitly examine the etiology of this association via a genetically informative design... - Harsh discipline, childhood sexual assault, and MAOA genotype: an investigation of main and interactive effects on diverse clinical externalizing outcomesJaime Derringer
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Behav Genet 40:639-48. 2010..These findings suggest that the previously reported interaction between MAOA and childhood maltreatment may be specific to the antisocial subset of externalizing disorders... - Delineating the structure of normal and abnormal personality: an integrative hierarchical approachKristian E Markon
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 88:139-57. 2005..Potential directions for future research on personality and psychopathology are discussed... - Investigating gender differences in alcohol problems: a latent trait modeling approachPenny E Nichol
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:783-94. 2007..Previous studies of gender differences used a wide range of methodological techniques, as well as limited assortments of alcohol problems... - The role of internalizing and externalizing liability factors in accounting for gender differences in the prevalence of common psychopathological syndromesMark D Kramer
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Psychol Med 38:51-61. 2008.... - Stability and change in personality traits from late adolescence to early adulthood: a longitudinal twin studyDaniel M Blonigen
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0344, USA
J Pers 76:229-66. 2008..Findings correspond with prior evidence of a normative trend toward growth and maturity in personality during emerging adulthood... - Genes mediate the association between P3 amplitude and externalizing disordersBrian M Hicks
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Psychophysiology 44:98-105. 2007..22. Results replicated across the two age cohorts and demonstrate that reduced P3 amplitude is a marker of the biological vulnerability to externalizing disorders... - Normal and abnormal personality traits: evidence for genetic and environmental relationships in the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared ApartKristian E Markon
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
J Pers 70:661-93. 2002..It is suggested that future research focus on the neurogenetic substrates of these shared systems and how dysfunction in these systems influences development of disordered personality... - Using item response theory to understand comorbidity among anxiety and unipolar mood disordersR F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, N414 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 0344, USA
Psychol Assess 13:140-51. 2001.... - Borderline personality disorder co-morbidity: relationship to the internalizing-externalizing structure of common mental disordersN R Eaton
Department of Psychology, 75 East River Road, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0344, USA
Psychol Med 41:1041-50. 2011..The meaning and causes of this co-morbidity are not fully understood. Our objective was to investigate and clarify the complex co-morbidity of BPD by integrating it into the structure of common mental disorders... - Personality disorders in children and adolescentsR F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 3:46-51. 2001.... - Reinterpreting comorbidity: a model-based approach to understanding and classifying psychopathologyRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 2:111-33. 2006..Nosological, structural, etiological, and psychological aspects of this liability spectrum approach to understanding comorbidity are discussed... - The psychological benefits of vigorous exercise: a study of discordant MZ twin pairsWendy Johnson
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 10:275-83. 2007..The magnitude of the difference was in excess of .4 standard deviations... - Developmental and genetic determinants of leadership role occupancy among womenRichard D Arvey
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, MN, USA
J Appl Psychol 92:693-706. 2007..Results are discussed in terms of prior life events and experiences that may trigger leadership development and the limitations of this study... - The Minnesota Twin Registry: current status and future directionsRobert F Krueger
Minnesota Twin Registry, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis 55455 0344, USA
Twin Res 5:488-92. 2002..We outline major contributions that have resulted from Registry research, as well as current and future research directions... - Religiousness, antisocial behavior, and altruism: genetic and environmental mediationLaura B Koenig
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
J Pers 75:265-90. 2007..Altruistic behavior also shared most all of its genetic influence, but only half of its shared environmental influence, with religiousness... - Gender differences and developmental change in externalizing disorders from late adolescence to early adulthood: A longitudinal twin studyBrian M Hicks
University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:433-47. 2007..Results illustrate the importance of gender and developmental context for symptom expression and the utility of structural models to integrate general trends and disorder-specific characteristics... - Differential parent-child relationships and adolescent externalizing symptoms: cross-lagged analyses within a monozygotic twin differences designS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Dev Psychol 42:1289-98. 2006..These results suggest that markedly different parent-child conflict has an environmentally mediated impact on child behavior through mid-adolescence, findings that yield insights into environmental influences on behavior... - Marriage and personality: a genetic analysisWendy Johnson
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 86:285-94. 2004..The results suggest that propensity to marry is heritable and that the phenotypic link between personality and propensity to marry is genetically influenced... - Predictors of physical health: toward an integrated model of genetic and environmental antecedentsWendy Johnson
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60:42-52. 2005..We discuss the implications of such mechanisms for differential expression of genetic variation in the population and suggest ways in which consideration of such effects can inform gerontology research... - Psychopathic personality traits: heritability and genetic overlap with internalizing and externalizing psychopathologyDaniel M Blonigen
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0344, USA
Psychol Med 35:637-48. 2005..The current study was designed to fill these gaps in the literature... - Relations between psychopathy facets and externalizing in a criminal offender sampleChristopher J Patrick
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 55455, USA
J Pers Disord 19:339-56. 2005..Implications for future research on the causes and correlates of psychopathy are discussed... - P300 amplitude as an indicator of externalizing in adolescent malesChristopher J Patrick
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Psychophysiology 43:84-92. 2006..Our findings indicate that reduced P300 amplitude is an indicator of the broad neurobiological vulnerability that underlies disorders within the externalizing spectrum... - Continuity of axes I and II: toward a unified model of personality, personality disorders, and clinical disordersRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N414 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0344, USA
J Pers Disord 19:233-61. 2005..This perspective underlines the need to work toward a more unified model of personality, PDs, and CDs in research and in future editions of the DSM... - An empirical comparison of information-theoretic selection criteria for multivariate behavior genetic modelsKristian E Markon
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Elliot Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Behav Genet 34:593-610. 2004..Results emphasize the importance of further research into theory and computation of information-theoretic criteria... - Genetic and environmental influences on religiousness: findings for retrospective and current religiousness ratingsLaura B Koenig
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers 73:471-88. 2005..Analysis of internal and external religiousness subscales of the total score revealed similar results. These findings support the hypothesis that the heritability of religiousness increases from adolescence to adulthood... - Personality stability in late adulthood: a behavioral genetic analysisWendy Johnson
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers 73:523-52. 2005..00 provided improved fit. The results suggest that the high stability of personality in later adulthood has a strong genetic foundation, supplemented by stability of environmental effects... - Locating eating pathology within an empirical diagnostic taxonomy: evidence from a community-based sampleKelsie T Forbush
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:282-92. 2010..These findings underscore the value of developing more comprehensive empirically based models of psychopathology to increase researchers' understanding of diverse mental disorders... - Triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy: developmental origins of disinhibition, boldness, and meannessChristopher J Patrick
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Dev Psychopathol 21:913-38. 2009.... - Toward scientifically useful quantitative models of psychopathology: the importance of a comparative approachRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Behav Brain Sci 33:163-4. 2010..Latent variable models have proven generative in studying psychopathology and its external correlates, and we doubt network models will prove as useful for psychopathology research... - Marital quality moderates genetic and environmental influences on the internalizing spectrumSusan C South
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 117:826-37. 2008..05; marital quality low: h(2) = 0.29), suggesting that those with a genetic predisposition to internalizing syndromes may be more likely to express this predisposition in the context of a dissatisfying marriage... - Timing of menarche and the origins of conduct disorderS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:890-6. 2006.... - Using latent trait modeling to conceptualize an alcohol problems continuumRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Psychol Assess 16:107-19. 2004..These results indicate that alcohol problems can be arrayed along a dimension of severity and emphasize the relevance of LTM to informing the conceptualization and assessment of alcohol problems... - Sources of covariation among the child-externalizing disorders: informant effects and the shared environmentS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Psychol Med 35:1133-44. 2005.... - Continuity and change in psychopathic traits as measured via normal-range personality: a longitudinal-biometric studyDaniel M Blonigen
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0344, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:85-95. 2006..Collectively, these findings suggest distinct developmental trends for psychopathic traits from late adolescence to early adulthood... - Categorical and continuous models of liability to externalizing disorders: a direct comparison in NESARCKristian E Markon
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Ekkiott Hall, 75 E River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:1352-9. 2005..However, whether this liability is relatively continuous and graded, or categorical and class-like, has not been well established... - Identifying psychopathy subtypes on the basis of personality structureBrian M Hicks
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Psychol Assess 16:276-88. 2004..These results suggest that psychopaths as defined by the PCL-R includes distinct subtypes, distinguishable in terms of personality structure, that may reflect different etiologies... - Linking antisocial behavior, substance use, and personality: an integrative quantitative model of the adult externalizing spectrumRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:645-66. 2007..The authors discuss the utility of this model for framing research on the correlates and the etiology of externalizing phenomena... - A bifactor approach to modeling the structure of the psychopathy checklist-revisedChristopher J Patrick
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers Disord 21:118-41. 2007.... - Symptom-based subfactors of DSM-defined conduct disorder: evidence for etiologic distinctionsJennifer L Tackett
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:483-7. 2005..The authors discuss implications of these findings for the assessment and treatment of CD... - Information-theoretic latent distribution modeling: distinguishing discrete and continuous latent variable modelsKristian E Markon
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Psychol Methods 11:228-43. 2006.... - A cross-cultural study of the structure of comorbidity among common psychopathological syndromes in the general health care settingRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis 55455 0344, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:437-47. 2003..These results extend previous research on the 2-factor model to the current complaints of attendees of general health care clinics, to a new set of syndromes, and to a variety of both Western and non-Western countries... - Factor structure of the psychopathic personality inventory: validity and implications for clinical assessmentStephen D Benning
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
Psychol Assess 15:340-50. 2003..Findings support using the PPI to assess these facets of psychopathy in community samples and to explore their behavioral correlates and genetic-neurobiological underpinnings... - Assessment of Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality via normal personality measures: convergent validity, criterion validity, and developmental changeEdward A Witt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
J Pers Assess 91:265-76. 2009..Collectively, these results provide important information about the assessment of FD and IA... - Genetic and environmental influences on adolescents' perceptions of current family environmentRyan W Herndon
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Behav Genet 35:373-80. 2005..These findings support a genetic basis of perceptions of one's family environment and indicate that reports of control/structure may be more genetically influenced than previously believed based on retrospective reports... - Genetic effects on physical health: lower at higher income levelsWendy Johnson
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 75 East River Road, MN, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Behav Genet 35:579-90. 2005.... - Progress and innovation: personality disorders and the vanguard of psychopathology researchRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, MN 55455 0344, USA
J Pers Disord 19:540-6; discussion 594-6. 2005.... - Externalizing psychopathology in adulthood: a dimensional-spectrum conceptualization and its implications for DSM-VRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0344, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:537-50. 2005..The authors conclude by discussing implications of the externalizing spectrum conceptualization for classification of disorders in the upcoming 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders... - Toward a dimensional and psychometrically-informed approach to conceptualizing psychopathologyRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455 0344, USA
Behav Res Ther 40:485-99. 2002....