Sherman Jamie Alexa, Ehrenreich-May Jill
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, 5665 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Flipse Building, Room 345, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, 5665 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Flipse Building, Room 315, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2018 Jun;49(3):396-408. doi: 10.1007/s10578-017-0760-x.
Negative interpretation bias, a correlate of anxiety, is defined as an individual's tendency to interpret ambiguous events as negative or threatening. The current study examined associations between interpretation bias and anxiety symptoms in clinically anxious youth and potential moderators of these relationships. Thirty anxious youth and their parents participated in a clinical interview and reported on child anxiety symptoms. Youth completed implicit, explicit-personally irrelevant, and explicit-personally relevant interpretation bias measures. Child-reported anxiety was only associated with negative interpretation bias on the explicit-personally relevant measure and parent-reported social anxiety was negatively associated with positive bias on this measure. Hispanic individuals displayed marginally higher anxiety symptoms and significantly more intense negative interpretation on the implicit measure. While this pilot study revealed preliminary findings that Hispanic ethnicity may play a role in relationships between interpretation bias and anxiety, future work may further elucidate associations between interpretation bias, anxiety, and ethnicity in anxious youth.
消极解释偏差是焦虑的一个相关因素，被定义为个体将模棱两可的事件解释为消极或具有威胁性的倾向。本研究考察了临床焦虑青少年中解释偏差与焦虑症状之间的关联以及这些关系的潜在调节因素。30名焦虑青少年及其父母参与了一次临床访谈，并报告了儿童的焦虑症状。青少年完成了内隐、外显-与个人无关以及外显-与个人相关的解释偏差测量。儿童自我报告的焦虑仅与外显-与个人相关测量中的消极解释偏差相关，而父母报告的社交焦虑与该测量中的积极偏差呈负相关。西班牙裔个体在内隐测量中表现出略高的焦虑症状和明显更强烈的消极解释。虽然这项初步研究揭示了西班牙裔种族可能在解释偏差与焦虑的关系中起作用的初步发现，但未来的研究可能会进一步阐明焦虑青少年中解释偏差、焦虑和种族之间的关联。
