Examination of Repeated Measurement of Personality, Social Relationships and Mental Health in a Sexual and Gender Diverse Sample.

How do we know whether psychological science generalises across groups? External validity, including the nomological network, is key for establishing the utility of psychological constructs in under-investigated populations. We used an online, monthly longitudinal study measuring personality, social relationships and mental health. Among participants (total N = 1777; 31% retention), 73% identified as sexual and/or gender minority (SGM).

Alcohol Use Disparities Among Transgender and Nonbinary Adults: An Intersectional Investigation.

Introduction: This study examined an intersectional perspective on alcohol use disparities within transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) adults.

Methods: We examined the data from the 2015 U.S.

The Prospective Impact of Perceived Social Support Profiles on Mental Health for Justice-Involved Youth.

Qualitative research highlights the importance of perceived social support for well-being in juvenile justice-involved youth, but to date, little quantitative research has tested the generalizability of these findings. We sought to address this gap by utilizing a person-centered approach to articulate (a) common interpersonal profiles in justice-involved youth, (b) their relation to prospective well-being, and (c) the impact of identity and placement on the relation between support profiles and psychopathology over time. At baseline, 1,354 adjudicated adolescents (Age = 16.

The Assessment and Heritability of a Brief Measure of Agency.

The interpersonal circumplex describes two major axes of personality that guide much of social behavior. Agency, one half of the interpersonal circumplex, refers to relatively stable behavioral patterns that center on self-focused dominance and assertiveness assessed in terms of goals, values, or personality traits. However, the psychometric overlap between agency and the most closely linked big five dimension, extraversion, is not well-established, and little behavior genetic work has documented evidence concerning the role of genetic and environmental influences on trait agency.

Neuropsychiatric symptoms predict rate of change in executive function in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Objective: Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are considered diagnostic and prognostic indicators of dementia and are attributable to neurodegenerative processes. Little is known about the prognostic value of early NPS on executive functioning (EF) decline in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). We examined whether baseline NPS predicted the rate of executive function (EF) decline among older adults with ADRD.