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Title

Pathway between Negative Interpretation Biases and Psychological Symptoms: Rumination as a Transdiagnostic Mediator in a Longitudinal Studyuse asterix (*) to get italics

Authors

Chung, Ho-Fung, Cheung, Sing-Hang, Please use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"

Year

2022

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Abstract

<h4>Background</h4> <p>The association between interpretation biases and content-relevant symptoms have been well-established but no studies have investigated their cause-and-effect relationship in a prospective longitudinal design. To date, there is also no study on whether one content-specific negative interpretation bias would lend vulnerability to other symptoms. The transdiagnostic role of rumination in both biases-to-symptoms and symptoms-to-symptoms association remains unclear. </p> <h4>Objective</h4> <p>This study aims to examine the longitudinal association between negative interpretation biases, rumination, internalizing symptoms, and paranoid thoughts.</p> <h4>Method</h4> <p>This is a three-time-point longitudinal study at a one-month interval. Participants aged 18 to 30 will be recruited through the research platform Prolific. Sociodemographic information including age, sex, gender, educational level, employment status, and previous psychiatric history will be self-reported. Internalizing symptoms will be assessed by the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS). Paranoid thoughts will be assessed by the revised Green et al Paranoid Thought Scale (R-GPTS). Rumination will be assessed by the Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire (PTQ). Two interpretation biases questionnaires, the Ambiguous Scenario Test for Depression (AST-D) and the Cognitive Bias Questionnaire for Psychosis (CBQp), will be used in this study. Cross-lagged panel mediation (CLPM) will be used to examine the longitudinal associations among variables.</p> <h4>Conclusion</h4> <div>Positive results from this longitudinal study can establish a better understanding of the cause-and-effect between interpretation biases and symptoms, as well as supporting rumination as a transdiagnostic mechanism that mediates cognitive vulnerabilities and symptoms. Negative results suggest that symptoms might precede interpretation biases. Rumination might characterize the internalizing spectrum, but not thought disorder components.  </div>

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Keywords

Depression, paranoia, repetitive negative thinking, interpretation bias, transdiagnostic, longitudinal study

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Thematic fields

Social sciences

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Submission date

2022-02-17 05:36:23

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Ariana Castro, Rita Pasion

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