Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Douglas House, 18B Trumpington Road, Cambridge CB2 8AH, UK; Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.
J Adolesc. 2019 Jul;74:63-70. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2019.04.007. Epub 2019 Jun 3.
Age has been found to moderate the relation between cognitive biases and psychopathology, yet little is known about normative age-related change in these biases during adolescence. Adolescence might be a key developmental period for changes in negatively biased information-processing, and understanding the trajectories of these processes in a typically developing population is a pre-requisite for further comprehending their association with psychopathology.
This study explores the effect of age on seven cognitive biases in a diverse community sample from the United Kingdom (N = 540) aged 10-17 years (309 were female) using self-report measures.
Age demonstrated a positive linear association with three biases: threat interpretation, negative attributions and overgeneralizing scores.
Important changes take place during adolescence that may increase young people's negative cognitive biases. Empirical data on normative age-related changes in cognitive biases should be integrated into theoretical models of biased information-processing and psychopathology.
年龄被发现可以调节认知偏差与精神病理学之间的关系，但对于青少年时期这些偏差的正常年龄相关变化知之甚少。青春期可能是信息处理负性偏向改变的关键发展阶段，理解这些过程在典型发育人群中的轨迹是进一步理解它们与精神病理学之间关联的前提。
本研究使用自我报告的测量方法，在英国的一个多样化社区样本中（N=540），对 10-17 岁的个体（309 名为女性）的七种认知偏差进行了年龄效应的研究。
年龄与三种偏差呈正线性相关：威胁解释、消极归因和过度泛化得分。
青少年时期会发生重要的变化，可能会增加年轻人的消极认知偏差。关于认知偏差的正常年龄相关变化的实证数据应整合到有偏信息处理和精神病理学的理论模型中。
