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Repetitive Negative Thinking and Interpretation Bias in Pregnancy

BACKGROUND: Repetitive negative thinking (RNT; e.g., worry about the future, rumination about the past) and the tendency to interpret ambiguous information in negative ways (interpretation bias) are cognitive processes that play a maintaining role in anxiety and depression, and recent evidence has d...

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Autores principales: Hirsch, Colette R., Meeten, Frances, Gordon, Calum, Newby, Jill M., Bick, Debra, Moulds, Michelle L.
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Publicado: PsychOpen 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9645466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36398060
http://dx.doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v2i4.3615
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author Hirsch, Colette R.
Meeten, Frances
Gordon, Calum
Newby, Jill M.
Bick, Debra
Moulds, Michelle L.
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Meeten, Frances
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Newby, Jill M.
Bick, Debra
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description BACKGROUND: Repetitive negative thinking (RNT; e.g., worry about the future, rumination about the past) and the tendency to interpret ambiguous information in negative ways (interpretation bias) are cognitive processes that play a maintaining role in anxiety and depression, and recent evidence has demonstrated that interpretation bias maintains RNT. In the context of perinatal mental health, RNT has received minimal research attention (despite the fact that it predicts later anxiety and depression), and interpretation bias remains unstudied (despite evidence that it maintains depression and anxiety which are common in this period). METHOD: We investigated the relationship between RNT, interpretation bias and psychopathology (depression, anxiety) in a pregnant sample (n = 133). We also recruited an age-matched sample of non-pregnant women (n = 104), to examine whether interpretation bias associated with RNT emerges for ambiguous stimuli regardless of its current personal relevance (i.e., pregnancy or non-pregnancy-related). RESULTS: As predicted, for pregnant women, negative interpretation bias, RNT, depression and anxiety were all positively associated. Interpretation bias was evident to the same degree for material that was salient (pregnancy-related) and non-salient (general), and pregnant and non-pregnant women did not differ. RNT was associated with interpretation bias for all stimuli and across the full sample. CONCLUSION: Our findings highlight the need to further investigate the impact of interpretation bias in pregnant women, and test the effectiveness of interventions which promote positive interpretations in reducing RNT in the perinatal period.
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spelling pubmed-96454662022-11-16 Repetitive Negative Thinking and Interpretation Bias in Pregnancy Hirsch, Colette R. Meeten, Frances Gordon, Calum Newby, Jill M. Bick, Debra Moulds, Michelle L. Clin Psychol Eur Research Articles BACKGROUND: Repetitive negative thinking (RNT; e.g., worry about the future, rumination about the past) and the tendency to interpret ambiguous information in negative ways (interpretation bias) are cognitive processes that play a maintaining role in anxiety and depression, and recent evidence has demonstrated that interpretation bias maintains RNT. In the context of perinatal mental health, RNT has received minimal research attention (despite the fact that it predicts later anxiety and depression), and interpretation bias remains unstudied (despite evidence that it maintains depression and anxiety which are common in this period). METHOD: We investigated the relationship between RNT, interpretation bias and psychopathology (depression, anxiety) in a pregnant sample (n = 133). We also recruited an age-matched sample of non-pregnant women (n = 104), to examine whether interpretation bias associated with RNT emerges for ambiguous stimuli regardless of its current personal relevance (i.e., pregnancy or non-pregnancy-related). RESULTS: As predicted, for pregnant women, negative interpretation bias, RNT, depression and anxiety were all positively associated. Interpretation bias was evident to the same degree for material that was salient (pregnancy-related) and non-salient (general), and pregnant and non-pregnant women did not differ. RNT was associated with interpretation bias for all stimuli and across the full sample. CONCLUSION: Our findings highlight the need to further investigate the impact of interpretation bias in pregnant women, and test the effectiveness of interventions which promote positive interpretations in reducing RNT in the perinatal period. PsychOpen 2020-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9645466/ /pubmed/36398060 http://dx.doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v2i4.3615 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9645466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36398060
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