systematically to one another across measures. Such an index could serve the applied purpose of predicting broad dysfunction without necessarily having theoretical coherence or construct validity in the traditional sense. Alternatively, such theories may have identified a factor similar to Alpha/Stability/Communion, which appears to be more strongly related to psychopathology than Beta/Plasticity/Agency. In either case this broad trait from the clinical literature would not be expected to explain the covariation of all normative and pathological personality dimensions, as has been proposed for the GFP.
