25 Domain Summary

This chapter lists the domain constructs and their summary definitions. Full domain entries live in the Clean Reference.

Mood and Drive Dysregulation: A dimensional construct describing dysregulated mood tone, energy, and drive across time and context.
Anxiety and Threat Sensitivity: A dimensional construct describing heightened detection and response to threat signals across contexts.
Trauma and Stress Response: A dimensional construct describing persistent threat responses, intrusions, and dysregulation following adverse or traumatic events.
Compulsivity and Perseveration: A dimensional construct describing repetitive thoughts, urges, or behaviors that are hard to inhibit and consume time or function.
Psychosis and Reality Testing: A dimensional construct describing the degree of reality distortion and impairment in testing beliefs or perceptions.
Cognitive Control and Executive Function: A dimensional construct describing attention regulation, planning, impulse control, and task persistence.
Social Communication and Relatedness: A dimensional construct describing social communication style, reciprocity, and relatedness across contexts.
Arousal, Sleep, and Circadian Regulation: A dimensional construct describing dysregulation in sleep quality, timing, or arousal that affects function and symptom expression.
Somatic Distress and Interoception: A dimensional construct describing heightened bodily symptom distress and sensitivity to internal cues.
Reward, Habit, and Substance-Related Compulsion: A dimensional construct describing compulsive reward seeking, habit formation, and substance-related loss of control.
Eating and Feeding Regulation: A dimensional construct describing regulation of eating, appetite, and body-related behaviors.
Personality Functioning (Dimensional): A dimensional construct describing stability of self-functioning and quality of interpersonal functioning.