Threat and benign interpretation bias might not be a unidimensional construct

Steinman, Shari A.; Portnow, Sam; Billingsley, Amber L.; Zhang, Diheng; Teachman, Bethany A.

doi:10.1080/02699931.2019.1682973

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“…We also found that positive interpretation bias was not significantly associated with COVID-19 anxiety, suggesting that individuals who tend to interpret ambiguous situations as non-threatening may not be particularly protected from anxiety about COVID-19. Finding different relations for negative and positive bias is consistent with other research suggesting that these biases are distinct constructs, and that positive interpretation bias might be particularly related to quality-of-life and well-being outcomes as opposed to anxiety (e.g., Steinman et al, 2020). It may be helpful in future work to examine how positive interpretation bias is related to quality-of-life and other markers of well-being in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

Section: Interpretation Biassupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Anxiety rates likely increased in part because people are anxious about COVID-19, an uncertain but objective health threat. Individuals who have a greater tendency to interpret ambiguous situations as threatening (i.e., a higher negative interpretation bias, which is a theorized mechanism maintaining clinical anxiety; Steinman et al, 2020) may experience higher COVID-19 anxiety than those with lower levels of negative interpretation bias. Also, individuals who hold marginalized racial or ethnic identities may experience more COVID-19 anxiety than those with non-marginalized identities because they have been disproportionately affected by the virus.…”

Section: Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Relationship Between Interpretation Bias, Racial or Ethnic Identity, and COVID-19 Anxiety

Schmitt

Larrazabal

Eberle

et al. 2023

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Background and Objectives: Anxiety symptoms have increased in prevalence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, including anxiety related specifically to COVID-19. It is important to determine correlates of COVID-19 anxiety to understand both risk factors common to anxiety in general (e.g., negative interpretation bias) and specific to risks tied to the pandemic (e.g., racial or ethnic identity, given greater risk for marginalized identities of contracting and dying from COVID-19). Methods: Using baseline data from a web-based clinical trial for adults high in trait anxiety (N = 1,514), we examined whether interpretation bias, racial or ethnic identity, and their interaction were associated with COVID-19 anxiety. Results: As hypothesized (https://osf.io/tpmnx), higher negative interpretation bias was associated with significantly higher COVID-19 anxiety, and individuals who identify as Black (vs. White) reported significantly higher COVID-19 anxiety. Unexpectedly, higher positive bias was not significantly associated with lower COVID-19 anxiety, and individuals who identify as Hispanic/Latinx (vs. not) did not report significantly higher COVID-19 anxiety. The interpretation-by-identity interaction was nonsignificant. Conclusions: These findings suggest that individuals who interpret ambiguous situations as negative and individuals who identify as Black tend to experience higher levels of COVID-19 anxiety. Future work should examine what specific systemic inequities work in tandem with race to correlate with COVID-19 anxiety.

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Section: Interpretation Biassupporting

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Section: Anxietymentioning

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Relationship Between Interpretation Bias, Racial or Ethnic Identity, and COVID-19 Anxiety

Schmitt

Larrazabal

Eberle

et al. 2023

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“… 1 We also explored whether whether adolescents with social fears experience a negative interpretation bias because they over-interpret ambiguous situations in a negative way, or because they have a lack of interpreting situations in a positive way (Amir et al, 2013 ; Huppert et al, 2003 ; Steinman et al, 2020 ). Results of this exploratory aim can be found in the Supplementary Materials, part C. …”

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A New Social Picture Task to Assess Interpretation Bias related to social fears in adolescents

Henricks

Lange

Luijten

et al. 2022

Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol

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This pre-registered study focused on developing a new social picture task to assess interpretation bias related to social fears in adolescents. Using such a pictorial task may increase ecological validity and readily trigger emotional processes compared to more traditional verbal tasks that are often used. In the picture task, ambiguous social pictures were presented, followed by a positive and negative interpretation. In this study, we examined how the new task relates to an already existing interpretation bias task and how the new pictorial task relates to social fears in adolescents. The sample consisted of 329 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years. Interpretation bias was assessed with the newly developed pictorial task and with more traditional verbal vignettes. Social fears were measured with self-report questionnaires. The results suggest that the pictorial task was able to assess interpretation bias comparable to the verbal vignettes, suggesting appropriate convergent validity. Interpretation bias assessed with the picture task was linked to higher levels of fear of negative evaluation, the core symptom of social anxiety, but not to social anxiety symptoms in general. The verbal task was linked to both social fears and thus still seems the preferred method to investigate interpretation bias related to social fears in adolescents. However, we do believe that with further improvement of the pictorial task, it could be a useful addition to the research field.

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“…As ponds age, P trapped and accumulated in sediments is susceptible to release, or "internal loading." Internal loading has been recognized as a difficult-to-manage contributor to eutrophication in lakes (Nürnberg 2009;Song et al 2015;Song and Burgin 2017;Steinman and Spears 2019). Internal loading has received comparatively little attention in managed ponds (Steinman and Spears 2019) because ponds are shallower and thought to be polymictic with oxic water columns (Walker 1987), an assumption that is not widely evaluated.…”

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Internal loading in stormwater ponds as a phosphorus source to downstream waters

Taguchi

Olsen

Natarajan

et al. 2020

Limnol Oceanogr Letters

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Stormwater ponds are common in many cities and are intended to slow runoff and improve water quality in downstream waterbodies. The use of stormwater ponds to capture and retain phosphorus is based on assumptions that most incoming phosphorus is particulate and prone to settling and that ponds remain fully aerated to prevent the release of sedimentary phosphorus via redox-driven internal loading. Our analysis of observations from stormwater ponds suggests that internal loading is common due to stratification, and the resulting low oxygen, as well as high sedimentary phosphorus availability. This indicates that many ponds have a reduced capacity to trap phosphorus and, in some cases, can release previously trapped phosphorus, potentially contributing to eutrophication in downstream waterbodies.

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Threat and benign interpretation bias might not be a unidimensional construct

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

Relationship Between Interpretation Bias, Racial or Ethnic Identity, and COVID-19 Anxiety

Relationship Between Interpretation Bias, Racial or Ethnic Identity, and COVID-19 Anxiety

A New Social Picture Task to Assess Interpretation Bias related to social fears in adolescents

Internal loading in stormwater ponds as a phosphorus source to downstream waters

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