Intelligence, Personality, Psychopathology, and Adjustment

Abstract

[explores] classic and recent research findings in [the relationship between cognition and psychopathology], as well as the models associated with them / these [are] discussed in terms of their consequences for intellectual adjustment, their clinical significance, and their expression in the more general pattern of functioning known as personality / [argues that] many psychiatric disorders represent the behavioral and emotional consequences of underlying distortions, biases, and restrictions in the processing of information / a number of factors, including genetic, biochemical, and physiological mechanisms, may contribute to the etiology of many disorders / [focuses] on psychological factors, primarily cognitive processes / 3 diagnostic categories [are discussed]: personality, mood, and anxiety disorders (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)