Simultaneous factor analysis of interview data from 1,641 respondents confirms a structural model for the expression of affectivity which appears to generalize across ages of both children and adolescents and across normal and psychopathological populations. The four-dimensional solution obtained here suggests that factors associated with deviations in feeling, relating, thinking, and impetuosity may represent stable attributes measurable from the Structured Pediatric Psychosocial Interview.
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