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Livermon S, Michel A, Zhang Y, Petz K, Toner E, Rucker M, Boukhechba M, Barnes LE, Teachman BA. A mobile intervention to reduce anxiety among university students, faculty, and staff: Mixed methods study on users' experiences. PLOS DIGITAL HEALTH 2025; 4:e0000601. [PMID: 39775059 PMCID: PMC11706487 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2024] [Accepted: 11/18/2024] [Indexed: 01/11/2025]
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Anxiety is highly prevalent among college communities, with significant numbers of students, faculty, and staff experiencing severe anxiety symptoms. Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs), including Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretation (CBM-I), offer promising solutions to enhance access to mental health care, yet there is a critical need to evaluate user experience and acceptability of DMHIs. CBM-I training targets cognitive biases in threat perception, aiming to increase cognitive flexibility by reducing rigid negative thought patterns and encouraging more benign interpretations of ambiguous situations. This study used questionnaire and interview data to gather feedback from users of a mobile application called "Hoos Think Calmly" (HTC), which offers brief CBM-I training doses in response to stressors commonly experienced by students, faculty, and staff at a large public university. Mixed methods were used for triangulation to enhance the validity of the findings. Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews from a subset of participants (n = 22) and analyzed thematically using an inductive framework, revealing five main themes: Effectiveness of the Training Program; Feedback on Training Sessions; Barriers to Using the App; Use Patterns; and Suggestions for Improvement. Additionally, biweekly user experience questionnaires sent to all participants in the active treatment condition (n = 134) during the parent trial showed the most commonly endorsed response (by 43.30% of participants) was that the program was somewhat helpful in reducing or managing their anxiety or stress. There was overall agreement between the quantitative and qualitative findings, indicating that graduate students found it the most effective and relatable, with results being moderately positive but somewhat more mixed for undergraduate students and staff, and least positive for faculty. Findings point to clear avenues to enhance the relatability and acceptability of DMHIs across diverse demographics through increased customization and personalization, which may help guide development of future DMHIs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sarah Livermon
- Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States of America
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- Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States of America
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- Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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Duijzings M, Todd J, Notebaert L. A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students. Behav Res Ther 2024; 181:104607. [PMID: 39116605 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2024] [Revised: 07/11/2024] [Accepted: 07/23/2024] [Indexed: 08/10/2024]
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This study aimed to determine the causal role of insomnia-consistent interpretation bias within the cognitive model of insomnia, by modifying this bias in students experiencing subclinical levels of insomnia and assessing subsequent effects on sleep parameters. A sample of 128 students underwent randomization to receive either a single session of online Cognitive Bias Modification-Interpretation (CBM-I) or a sham training. Participants then tracked their pre-sleep worry and sleep parameters for seven consecutive days. Interpretation bias was assessed using an encoding-recognition task specifically designed for insomnia-related interpretation bias. The CBM-I manipulation utilized ambiguous scenarios to redirect participants away from making insomnia-related interpretations. Results revealed that CBM-I effectively decreased insomnia-consistent interpretation bias compared to the sham treatment, with interpretation bias being absent post-training in the CBM-I group. This reduction did not lead to improvements in pre-sleep worry or any sleep parameters. This study has been the first to investigate the causal role of interpretation bias on symptoms of insomnia. Although results indicated this bias to be modifiable, its causality within the cognitive model proves to be more complicated. Future research focusing on optimization of cognitive bias modifications could shed more light on the effects of biased cognitions on insomnia symptoms.
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- Marloes Duijzings
- The University of Sydney, School of Psychology, NSW, Australia; Leiden University, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden, the Netherlands.
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- The University of Sydney, School of Psychology, NSW, Australia; The University of Western Australia, School of Psychological Science, WA, Australia
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- The University of Western Australia, School of Psychological Science, WA, Australia
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Beltzer ML, Daniel KE, Daros AR, Teachman BA. Changes in Learning From Social Feedback After Web-Based Interpretation Bias Modification: Secondary Analysis of a Digital Mental Health Intervention Among Individuals With High Social Anxiety Symptoms. JMIR Form Res 2023; 7:e44888. [PMID: 37556186 PMCID: PMC10448289 DOI: 10.2196/44888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Revised: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Biases in social reinforcement learning, or the process of learning to predict and optimize behavior based on rewards and punishments in the social environment, may underlie and maintain some negative cognitive biases that are characteristic of social anxiety. However, little is known about how cognitive and behavioral interventions may change social reinforcement learning in individuals who are anxious. OBJECTIVE This study assessed whether a scalable, web-based cognitive bias modification for interpretations (CBM-I) intervention changed social reinforcement learning biases in participants with high social anxiety symptoms. This study focused on 2 types of social reinforcement learning relevant to social anxiety: learning about other people and learning about one's own social performance. METHODS Participants (N=106) completed 2 laboratory sessions, separated by 5 weeks of ecological momentary assessment tracking emotion regulation strategy use and affect. Approximately half (n=51, 48.1%) of the participants completed up to 6 brief daily sessions of CBM-I in week 3. Participants completed a task that assessed social reinforcement learning about other people in both laboratory sessions and a task that assessed social reinforcement learning about one's own social performance in the second session. Behavioral data from these tasks were computationally modeled using Q-learning and analyzed using mixed effects models. RESULTS After the CBM-I intervention, participants updated their beliefs about others more slowly (P=.04; Cohen d=-0.29) but used what they learned to make more accurate decisions (P=.005; Cohen d=0.20), choosing rewarding faces more frequently. These effects were not observed among participants who did not complete the CBM-I intervention. Participants who completed the CBM-I intervention also showed less-biased updating about their social performance than participants who did not complete the CBM-I intervention, learning similarly from positive and negative feedback and from feedback on items related to poor versus good social performance. Regardless of the intervention condition, participants at session 2 versus session 1 updated their expectancies about others more from rewarding (P=.003; Cohen d=0.43) and less from punishing outcomes (P=.001; Cohen d=-0.47), and they became more accurate at learning to avoid punishing faces (P=.001; Cohen d=0.20). CONCLUSIONS Taken together, our results provide initial evidence that there may be some beneficial effects of both the CBM-I intervention and self-tracking of emotion regulation on social reinforcement learning in individuals who are socially anxious, although replication will be important.
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- Miranda L Beltzer
- Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
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Bean CAL, Everaert J, Ciesla JA. Positive Interpretation Bias Predicts Longitudinal Decreases in Social Anxiety. Behav Ther 2023; 54:290-302. [PMID: 36858760 DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2022.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2022] [Revised: 09/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Theoretical models of social anxiety suggest that distorted interpretation processes contribute to its development and maintenance, although the pathways through which this occurs are not well understood. Therefore, the present longitudinal study sought to determine whether negative interpretation bias, positive interpretation bias, and interpretation inflexibility (the degree to which participants correctly revise initial interpretations) predict changes in social anxiety over time. In an important advance over prior studies, individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) were accounted for, as WMC is thought to play a crucial role in the generation and maintenance of interpretation biases. Following a baseline assessment of social anxiety, interpretation biases, and WMC, participants completed follow-up assessments of social anxiety both 2 weeks (n = 106) and 4 weeks (n = 96) later. After controlling for baseline social anxiety and WMC, greater positive interpretation bias was found to predict lower social anxiety at both follow-ups. Neither negative interpretation bias nor interpretation inflexibility was significantly associated with follow-up social anxiety. These results provide support for greater positive interpretation bias as a facilitator of decreases in social anxiety and a potential target for clinical intervention.
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- Tilburg University and Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences
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Rogers J, Sicouri G. A Single-Session Online Cognitive Bias Modification of Interpretations Modified for Adults With Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms. Behav Ther 2022; 53:967-980. [PMID: 35987552 DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2022.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 04/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Anxiety and depression are common, co-occurring, and costly mental health disorders. Cognitive bias modification aims to modify biases to reduce associated symptoms. Few studies have targeted multiple biases associated with both anxiety and depression, and those that have lacked a control condition. This study piloted a single-session online cognitive bias modification (known as CBM-IA) designed to target two biases associated with anxiety and depression-interpretation bias and attribution style-in adults with varying levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms. Participants (18-26 years) with at least mild levels of anxiety/stress and depressive symptoms on the DASS-21 were randomly allocated to an intervention (n = 23) or a control (n = 22) condition. The training consisted of a single-session online CBM-IA to encourage positive interpretations and a positive attribution style. Interpretation bias, attribution style, anxious and depressive mood states, and anxiety, stress and depressive symptoms improved at posttraining and at follow-up, irrespective of condition. Changes in interpretation bias from pre- to posttraining were significantly associated with changes in anxious mood state. CBM-IA, as implemented in this single-session pilot study, did not significantly reduce targeted biases and symptoms compared to a control condition. This adds to the mixed evidence on the efficacy of single-session CBM-I for altering biases and symptoms.
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- Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales; Macquarie University.
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Attention and interpretation cognitive bias change: A systematic review and meta-analysis of bias modification paradigms. Behav Res Ther 2022; 157:104180. [PMID: 36037642 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2022.104180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Revised: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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This systematic review and meta-analysis examines the effect of Cognitive Bias Modification for attention (CBM-A) and interpretation (CBM-I) on reducing the targeted biases and investigates moderators of each approach. PsycINFO, PsychArticles, and PubMED databases were searched for randomized-controlled studies published before March 2020 with pre- and post-CBM cognitive bias outcome measures, resulting in 91 CBM-A (n = 5914 individuals) and 70 CBM-I samples (n = 4802 individuals). Random-effects models and Hedge's g calculation showed significant medium overall effects of bias reduction with moderate to high heterogeneity (CBM-A g = 0.49 [0.36, 0.64], I2 = 85.19%; CBM-I g = 0.58 [0.48, 0.68], I2 = 70.92%). Effect sizes did not differ between approaches and remained significant after trim-and-fill adjustment for possible publication bias. Moderator variables were investigated with meta-regression and subgroup analyses. Participant age, symptom type, control condition and number of trials moderated CBM-A; student and clinical status moderated CBM-I effect size. Results support attention and interpretation modification in controlled laboratory and variable (online) training settings for non-clinical and clinical samples across various symptom types (anxiety, depression, substance use, eating disorders). Further empirical evidence is necessary to determine optimal sample and methodological combinations most strongly associated with adaptive behavioral outcomes.
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The Relationship Between Attention, Interpretation, and Memory Bias During Facial Perception in Social Anxiety. Behav Ther 2022; 53:701-713. [PMID: 35697432 DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2022.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2021] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Although cognitive theories suggest the interactive nature of information processing biases in contributing to social anxiety, most studies to date have investigated these biases in isolation. This study aimed at (a) testing the association between social anxiety and each of the threat-related cognitive biases: attention, interpretation, and memory bias; and (b) examining the relationship between these cognitive biases in facial perception. We recruited an unselected sample of 188 adult participants and measured their level of social anxiety and cognitive biases using faces displaying angry, disgusted, happy, and ambiguous versions of these expressions. All bias tasks were assessed with the same set of facial stimuli. Regression analyses showed that social anxiety symptoms significantly predicted attention avoidance and poorer sensitivity in recognizing threatening faces. Social anxiety was, however, unrelated to interpretation bias in our sample. Results of path analysis suggested that attention bias influenced memory bias indirectly through interpretation bias for angry but not disgusted faces. Our findings suggest that, regardless of social anxiety level, when individuals selectively oriented to faces displaying anger, the faces were interpreted to be more negative. This, in turn, predicted better memory for the angry faces. The results provided further empirical support for the combined cognitive bias hypothesis.
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Leung CJ, Yiend J, Trotta A, Lee TMC. The combined cognitive bias hypothesis in anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Anxiety Disord 2022; 89:102575. [PMID: 35594749 DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Revised: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Cognitive theories have postulated the relational nature of different cognitive biases in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders. To test this combined cognitive bias hypothesis, this review addressed the following questions: (i) whether different cognitive biases are associated with each other and (ii) whether one bias influences another bias. We identified 36 articles that studied the relationship between cognitive biases (attention, interpretation and memory bias). Of these, 31 studies were entered into two meta-analyses. Sixteen studies were included in the first meta-analysis of the correlation between cognitive bias indices. A further 15 studies were included in another meta-analysis to examine the transfer effects of cognitive bias modification (CBM) to another bias. Both meta-analyses yielded small but significant overall pooled effect sizes after the removal of outliers (r = 0.11 and g = 0.19 respectively). Moderator analyses revealed that the relationship between interpretation and memory bias was significantly stronger than other types of cognitive bias correlations and CBM is more potent in modifying biases when it was delivered in the laboratory compared with online. Our review quantifies the strength of the relationships between biases and transfer effects following CBM, which serves as a basis to further understand the mechanisms underlying biased information processing.
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- Chantel J Leung
- Laboratory of Neuropsychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychosis Studies, London, UK
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- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychosis Studies, London, UK.
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- Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK; Tony Hillis Unit, Lambeth Hospital, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China.
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Chen Y, Zhang H, Liu Z, Hu Y, Fang X, Liu K. Shyness and classroom performance in junior school students: A moderated mediation model. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-02865-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Weisberg RB, Gonsalves MA, Ramadurai R, Braham H, Fuchs C, Beard C. Development of a cognitive bias modification intervention for anxiety disorders in primary care. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 2022; 61 Suppl 1:73-92. [PMID: 33629751 PMCID: PMC11363222 DOI: 10.1111/bjc.12281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2020] [Revised: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES There is a great need for low-intensity, scalable treatments in primary care, where most anxious patients first present for treatment. We describe Stage IA treatment development and a Stage IB feasibility trial of cognitive bias modification (CBM) for transdiagnostic anxiety in primary care. METHODS The online intervention, Mental Habits, comprised eight sessions of a personalized CBM targeting attention and interpretation biases. Coaches assisted patients in using the website, monitored progress via a dashboard, and shared information with primary care providers. We evaluated Mental Habits in an open trial (N = 14) and a randomized controlled trial (RCT) (N = 40) in primary care patients with anxiety disorders. RESULTS We compared results to a priori benchmarks of clinically meaningful outcomes. In the open trial, Mental Habits met feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy benchmarks. In the pilot RCT, there was greater dropout at one study site which ultimately closed. In the intent-to-treat analyses, Mental Habits met the benchmark for self-report, but not the interview measure of anxiety. Symptom Tracking did not meet the benchmark for self-report or interview measures of anxiety. In per-protocol analyses, Mental Habits exceeded the benchmark for both self-report and interview measures, whereas Symptom Tracking met the benchmark for self-report. Interpretation bias improved in the Mental Habits group, but not in Symptom Tracking. No effects were observed for attention bias. CONCLUSION The online CBM intervention demonstrated good acceptability and, when delivered at a stable primary care clinic, preliminary effectiveness in primary care. A larger RCT is warranted to test effectiveness. PRACTITIONER POINTS A personalized, transdiagnostic Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) intervention for anxiety in primary care is acceptable to primary care patients with social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and/or panic disorder /agoraphobia. With training and supervision from licensed mental health clinicians, bachelor's-level coaches can assist primary care patients to self-administer CBM. Offering a low-intensity, self-directed anxiety intervention in primary care can greatly expand the reach of anxiety treatment, with minimal need for additional resources. Interpretation bias may be an important clinical target for primary care patients with anxiety.
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- Risa B. Weisberg
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Family Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA
- Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Brundage SB, Winters KL, Armendariz K, Sabat R, Beilby JM. Comparing evaluations of social situations for adults who do and do not stutter. JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 2022; 95:106161. [PMID: 34872018 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2021.106161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Revised: 10/02/2021] [Accepted: 10/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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PURPOSE Numerous research studies indicate that stuttering is associated with increased risk for social anxiety disorder (SAD). Interpretation bias is one of four cognitive biases thought to maintain symptoms associated with SAD. Interpretation bias occurs when one evaluates social situations as more negative than they actually are. The purpose of this study was to investigate if adults who do and do not stutter interpret positive, ambiguous, mildly negative, and profoundly negative social situations similarly, or-if like individuals with SAD-adults who stutter exhibit negative interpretation biases. METHOD Forty-eight adults who stutter and 42 age-and gender-matched adults who do not stutter participated. Participants completed the Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) and were assigned to one of four groups: adults who stutter with high FNE (AWS-High), adults who stutter with low FNE (AWS-Low), adults who do not stutter with high FNE (AWNS-High), and adults who do not stutter with low FNE (AWNS-Low). All participants completed the trait scale of the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Interpretation and Judgmental Questionnaire (IJQ). The IJQ contains descriptions of four types of social situations: positive, mildly negative, profoundly negative, and ambiguous. Within each situation type there are five different scenarios, for a total of 20 scenarios across the four situation types. Participants provided written responses to these 20 social scenarios. Qualitative analyses were used to understand how members of each group interpreted the different social scenarios. RESULTS Thematic analysis revealed that each group responded in similar ways to each of the social scenarios, regardless of the type of situation. Adults who do and do not stutter with low and high FNE agreed on many themes related to the 20 social scenarios, and they agreed across all four types of social situations. Somewhat surprisingly, the theme "stuttering" was mentioned infrequently by the adults who stutter. CONCLUSIONS Results suggested that adults who do and do not stutter with low and high FNE interpret social situations similarly, and that no group demonstrated a negative interpretation bias consistent with what is observed in adults with SAD. The interpretations provided by each group were appropriate to the specific scenarios being evaluated.
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- Shelley B Brundage
- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, George Washington University, 2115G Street NW, Suite 226, Washington DC 20052, 202-994-5008, United States.
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, George Washington University, 2115G Street NW, Suite 226, Washington DC 20052, 202-994-5008, United States; Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 2405A Whitis Ave, Stop A1100, Austin, TX, 78712, United States
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, George Washington University, 2115G Street NW, Suite 226, Washington DC 20052, 202-994-5008, United States
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, George Washington University, 2115G Street NW, Suite 226, Washington DC 20052, 202-994-5008, United States; KIPP NorCal Public Schools, 1000 Broadway #460, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
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- Curtin School of Allied Health, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, Perth, 6102, Western Australia
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Sakaki K, Nozawa T, Ikeda S, Kawashima R. Neural correlates of cognitive bias modification for interpretation. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2021; 15:247-260. [PMID: 32322880 PMCID: PMC7304515 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaa026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Revised: 12/31/2019] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The effectiveness of cognitive bias modification for interpretation (CBM-I), a treatment method employed to reduce social anxiety (SA), has been examined. However, the neural correlates of CBM-I remain unclear, and we aimed to elucidate brain activities during intervention and activity changes associated with CBM-I effectiveness in a pre–post intervention comparison. Healthy participants divided into two groups (CBM, control) were scanned before, during and after intervention using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Ambiguous social situations followed by positive outcomes were repeatedly imagined by the CBM group during intervention, while half of the outcomes in the control group were negative. Whole-brain analysis revealed that activation of the somatomotor and somatosensory areas, occipital lobe, fusiform gyrus and thalamus during intervention was significantly greater in the CBM than in the control group. Furthermore, altered activities in the somatomotor and somatosensory areas, occipital lobe and posterior cingulate gyrus during interpreting ambiguous social situations showed a significant group × change in SA interaction. Our result suggests that when facing ambiguous social situations, positive imagery instilled by CBM-I is recalled, and interpretations are modified to contain social reward. These findings may help to suggest an alternative manner of enhancing CBM-I effectiveness from a cognitive-neuroscience perspective.
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- Kohei Sakaki
- Department of Functional Brain Imaging, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan.,Division for Interdisciplinary Advanced Research and Education, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.,Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo 102-0083, Japan
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- Research Institute for the Earth Inclusive Sensing Empathizing with Silent Voices, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Ubiquitous Sensing, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
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- Department of Ubiquitous Sensing, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan.,Department of Functional Brain Imaging, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
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Ren Z, Zhao Z, Yu X, Zhang L, Li X. Effects of cognitive bias modification for interpretation on hostile interpretation bias and self-reported aggression in juvenile delinquents. Int J Clin Health Psychol 2021; 21:100226. [PMID: 33680000 PMCID: PMC7893428 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2021.100226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE The social information processing model holds that aggressive behavior is closely related to the hostile interpretation of ambiguous social cues, suggesting the possibility that an intervention that reduces hostile interpretations could reduce aggression. This study in Mainland China evaluated the remediating effects of cognitive bias modification for interpretation (CBM-I) on the hostile interpretation bias and self-reported aggressive behaviors of male juvenile delinquents, taking into account initial hostile interpretation bias as a possible moderator of the intervention effect. METHOD Fifty-six male juvenile delinquents aged 16-18 were recruited and randomly assigned to the CBM-I group (n = 28) or the Waiting-List group (n = 28). Interpretation bias and self-reported aggressive behavior were assessed at pre-test and post-test. RESULTS The positive interpretations of participants in the CBM-I group were significantly increased compared with participants in the Waiting-List group. The intervention effect of CBM-I on self-reported physical aggression was significant only for juvenile delinquents with high pre-test hostile interpretation bias. CONCLUSIONS CBM-I can significantly improve the positive interpretation bias of juvenile delinquents, and reduce the self-reported physical aggression for some male juvenile delinquents. The results have implications for providing low-cost and high-efficiency intervention for juvenile delinquents' self-reported aggression behavior.
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- Zhihong Ren
- Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, China
- Department of Education, Jianghan University, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, China
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Chen J, Short M, Kemps E. Interpretation bias in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Affect Disord 2020; 276:1119-1130. [PMID: 32777650 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.07.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Revised: 07/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Interpretation bias, which involves interpreting ambiguous social events negatively and catastrophising even mildly negative social events, has been suggested as a key maintenance factor of Social Anxiety Disorder. Although some individual studies and narrative reviews have demonstrated a role for negative interpretation bias in social anxiety (disorder), findings have been mixed. Given the lack of a quantitative synthesis of the evidence, the current systematic review and meta-analysis examined the strength of the relationship between interpretation bias and social anxiety. It also investigated potential moderators of this relationship (i.e., types of measures and stimuli, samples, and study designs). METHODS Five databases (PsycINFO, PubMed, Medline, Scopus, and CINAHL) were searched. Of 46 studies identified, 44 were suitable for meta-analysis (N = 3859). RESULTS There was a large effect for the relationship between social anxiety and interpretation bias (g = 0.83). Types of measures (subjective versus objective) and stimuli (verbal versus visual) were identified as significant moderators, with subjective measures and verbal stimuli particularly adept at capturing interpretation bias in socially anxious individuals. LIMITATIONS The effect sizes displayed significant heterogeneity between studies, which likely reflects some publication bias, and thus, the overall effect size may be inflated. CONCLUSION Findings may help to refine clinical models and interventions for Social Anxiety Disorder, which in turn may maximise evidence-based interventions that target negative interpretation bias in this disorder.
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- Junwen Chen
- Research School of Psychology, The Australian National University, 39 Science Road, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; School of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
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- School of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
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- School of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
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