Trait severity, traitedness, and their interaction were entered into a series of hierarchical regression analyses to assess their relations to external variables. These analyses suggested that, as anticipated and as shown in Table 4, the trait severity score relates to most of the concurrent validating variables. Traitedness as a main effect showed few relations, with the exceptions of small effects in predicting cognitive impairment and AA involvement. The interaction failed to increment the main effects across any of the dependent variables, disconfirming the hypothesis that person-fit to the empirically derived continuum would help isolate individuals for whom that continuum would be most salient.
