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Specific interpretation biases as a function of social anxiety and callous-unemotional traits in a community and a clinical adolescent sample

BACKGROUND: Threatening and hostile interpretation biases are seen as causal and maintaining mechanisms of childhood anxiety and aggression, respectively. However, it is unclear whether these interpretation biases are specific to distinct problems or whether they are general psychopathological pheno...

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Autores principales: Dapprich, Anna L., Becker, Eni S., Derks, Laura M., Legenbauer, Tanja, Lange, Wolf-Gero
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10064950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37004075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-023-00585-z
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author Dapprich, Anna L.
Becker, Eni S.
Derks, Laura M.
Legenbauer, Tanja
Lange, Wolf-Gero
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description BACKGROUND: Threatening and hostile interpretation biases are seen as causal and maintaining mechanisms of childhood anxiety and aggression, respectively. However, it is unclear whether these interpretation biases are specific to distinct problems or whether they are general psychopathological phenomena. The specificity versus pervasiveness of interpretation biases could also differ depending on mental health status. Therefore, in the current study, we investigated whether social anxiety and callous-unemotional (CU) traits were uniquely related to threatening and hostile interpretation biases, respectively, in both a community and a clinical sample of adolescents. METHODS: A total of 161 adolescents between 10 to 15 years of age participated. The community sample consisted of 88 participants and the clinical sample consisted of 73 inpatients with a variety of psychological disorders. Social anxiety and CU-traits were assessed with self-report questionnaires. The Ambiguous Social Scenario Task was used to measure both threatening and hostile interpretations in response to written vignettes. RESULTS: Results showed that social anxiety was uniquely related to more threatening interpretations, while CU-traits were uniquely related to more hostile interpretations. These relationships were replicated for the community sample. For the clinical sample, only the link between social anxiety and threatening interpretations was significant. Explorative analyses showed that adolescents with externalizing disorders scored higher on hostile interpretations than adolescents with internalizing disorders. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, these results support the content-specificity of threatening interpretation biases in social anxiety and of hostile interpretation biases in CU-traits. Better understanding the roles of interpretation biases in different psychopathologies might open avenues for tailored prevention and intervention paradigms.
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spelling pubmed-100649502023-04-03 Specific interpretation biases as a function of social anxiety and callous-unemotional traits in a community and a clinical adolescent sample Dapprich, Anna L. Becker, Eni S. Derks, Laura M. Legenbauer, Tanja Lange, Wolf-Gero Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Research BACKGROUND: Threatening and hostile interpretation biases are seen as causal and maintaining mechanisms of childhood anxiety and aggression, respectively. However, it is unclear whether these interpretation biases are specific to distinct problems or whether they are general psychopathological phenomena. The specificity versus pervasiveness of interpretation biases could also differ depending on mental health status. Therefore, in the current study, we investigated whether social anxiety and callous-unemotional (CU) traits were uniquely related to threatening and hostile interpretation biases, respectively, in both a community and a clinical sample of adolescents. METHODS: A total of 161 adolescents between 10 to 15 years of age participated. The community sample consisted of 88 participants and the clinical sample consisted of 73 inpatients with a variety of psychological disorders. Social anxiety and CU-traits were assessed with self-report questionnaires. The Ambiguous Social Scenario Task was used to measure both threatening and hostile interpretations in response to written vignettes. RESULTS: Results showed that social anxiety was uniquely related to more threatening interpretations, while CU-traits were uniquely related to more hostile interpretations. These relationships were replicated for the community sample. For the clinical sample, only the link between social anxiety and threatening interpretations was significant. Explorative analyses showed that adolescents with externalizing disorders scored higher on hostile interpretations than adolescents with internalizing disorders. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, these results support the content-specificity of threatening interpretation biases in social anxiety and of hostile interpretation biases in CU-traits. Better understanding the roles of interpretation biases in different psychopathologies might open avenues for tailored prevention and intervention paradigms. BioMed Central 2023-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10064950/ /pubmed/37004075 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-023-00585-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Dapprich, Anna L.
Becker, Eni S.
Derks, Laura M.
Legenbauer, Tanja
Lange, Wolf-Gero
Specific interpretation biases as a function of social anxiety and callous-unemotional traits in a community and a clinical adolescent sample
title Specific interpretation biases as a function of social anxiety and callous-unemotional traits in a community and a clinical adolescent sample
title_full Specific interpretation biases as a function of social anxiety and callous-unemotional traits in a community and a clinical adolescent sample
title_fullStr Specific interpretation biases as a function of social anxiety and callous-unemotional traits in a community and a clinical adolescent sample
title_full_unstemmed Specific interpretation biases as a function of social anxiety and callous-unemotional traits in a community and a clinical adolescent sample
title_short Specific interpretation biases as a function of social anxiety and callous-unemotional traits in a community and a clinical adolescent sample
title_sort specific interpretation biases as a function of social anxiety and callous-unemotional traits in a community and a clinical adolescent sample
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10064950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37004075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-023-00585-z
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