a Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Faculty of Psychology , Beijing Normal University , Beijing , P.R. People's Republic of China.
b Institute of Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology Unit , Leiden University , Leiden , Netherlands.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2019 Jul;32(4):376-386. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2019.1598556. Epub 2019 Mar 29.
Interpretation bias (IB), defined as the tendency to interpret ambiguous social situations in a threatening manner, has increasingly been studied in children and adolescents. Compared to Western samples, the relation between IB and social anxiety in Chinese youth has received little attention. The present study was to mainly examine the relationship between IB and social anxiety among Chinese adolescents. Cross-sectional design was utilized. IB, measured by the (AIBQ), and social anxiety were surveyed among a group of high socially anxious Chinese adolescents (= 25) and a control group (= 29). Participants were asked to rate the likelihood of interpretations coming to mind in social/non-social situations and to choose the most believable interpretation. The high social anxiety group had more negative interpretations and beliefs in social situations, and the interpretation bias was particular to social anxiety versus depression. Additionally, the cognitive content-specificity hypothesis was supported; the high anxious group showed interpretation bias in social situations, but didn't have more negative interpretations of non-social situations, after controlling for depression. The present study yielded comparable findings as found in Western samples regarding the relation between IB and social anxiety.
解释偏向（IB），定义为一种倾向，即将模糊的社会情境以威胁的方式进行解释，在儿童和青少年中越来越受到研究。与西方样本相比，中国青少年的 IB 与社交焦虑之间的关系还没有得到太多关注。本研究主要考察了中国青少年 IB 与社交焦虑之间的关系。采用横断面设计。使用（AIBQ）测量了一组高社交焦虑的中国青少年（= 25）和对照组（= 29）的 IB 和社交焦虑。要求参与者对社会/非社会情境中可能出现的解释进行评分，并选择最可信的解释。高社交焦虑组对社会情境的消极解释和信念更多，且解释偏向与社交焦虑而非抑郁有关。此外，认知内容特异性假设得到支持；在控制抑郁后，高焦虑组在社会情境中表现出解释偏向，但对非社会情境没有更多的消极解释。本研究在 IB 与社交焦虑之间的关系方面得出了与西方样本相似的发现。
