Ho Samuel M Y, Dai Darren Wai Tong, Mak Christine, Liu Katy Wing Kei
Psychology Laboratory, Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong.
Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Int J Clin Health Psychol. 2018 Sep-Dec;18(3):227-234. doi: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2018.04.001. Epub 2018 May 7.
: To examine the roles of anxiety sensitivity and attentional bias in the development of anxiety and depression symptoms among adolescents. : 214 grade 7 to grade 10 Hong Kong Chinese students completed a package of psychometric inventories to measure levels of anxiety sensitivity, selective attentional processing, and anxiety and depressive symptoms in 2016 and then again in 2017. Girls, when compared with boys, exhibited more anxiety symptoms and anxiety sensitivity in 2016. They also reported a significant increase in mean depression level from 2016 to 2017. Regression analyses revealed that the physical-concerns dimension of anxiety sensitivity, positive attentional bias, and to a lesser extent negative attentional bias were related to the development of both anxiety and depression symptoms one year later. Fear of mental incapacity could predict depression one year later but not anxiety symptoms. : Intervention through anxiety sensitivity training to reduce somatic concerns and attentional bias modification to increase habitual attention to positive stimuli and to disengage from negative stimuli can reduce anxiety and depression symptoms among high school students.
研究焦虑敏感性和注意偏向在青少年焦虑和抑郁症状发展中的作用。214名香港初一至初四年级的中国学生在2016年完成了一套心理测量量表，以测量焦虑敏感性、选择性注意加工以及焦虑和抑郁症状水平，2017年再次进行测量。与男孩相比，女孩在2016年表现出更多的焦虑症状和焦虑敏感性。她们还报告称，从2016年到2017年，平均抑郁水平显著增加。回归分析显示，焦虑敏感性的身体担忧维度、积极注意偏向以及在较小程度上的消极注意偏向与一年后的焦虑和抑郁症状发展有关。对精神无能的恐惧可以预测一年后的抑郁，但不能预测焦虑症状。通过焦虑敏感性训练来减少躯体担忧，以及通过注意偏向矫正来增加对积极刺激的习惯性注意并脱离消极刺激，可以减轻高中生的焦虑和抑郁症状。
