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01-08-2009 | Brief Report

Cognitive Specificity and Affective Confounding in Social Anxiety: Does Depression Exacerbate Judgmental Bias?

Auteurs: Jennifer L. Trew, Lynn E. Alden

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 4/2009

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Abstract

Social anxiety is associated with judgmental biases, wherein individuals overestimate the probability that negative social events will occur and the costs associated with these events. Researchers have suggested that these biases may be central to social anxiety and treatment techniques that target judgmental biases are being evaluated (e.g. Hofmann, J Consult Clin Psychol 72:392–399, 2004; Voncken and Bögels, J Cogn Psychother 20:59–73, 2006). The present study investigated whether judgmental biases are specific to social anxiety or are also associated with depression. Four hundred and eighteen undergraduates completed measures of social anxiety, depression, and judgmental bias. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that both social anxiety and depression make significant independent contributions to the prediction of judgmental biases. The interaction between social anxiety and depression did not contribute significantly to prediction, suggesting that depression has an additive rather than an interactive effect on bias. This carries potential implications for treatments that target judgmental bias and for research on affective confounding.
Voetnoten
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Twelve participants failed to complete the measure of judgmental bias and four failed to complete the measure of depression.
 
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Note that removing this case from all of the analyses did not change the pattern of results. No standardized regression coefficient changed by more than .01 units in the probability model or .03 units in the cost model and the pattern of significance for the main effects and interaction term was identical to that of the reported analyses containing all participants. Based on this, the results reported contain all participants.
 
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The confidence intervals reported here are for the standardized beta weights and are bias-corrected and accelerated bootstrapped confidence intervals obtained using 10,000 resamples in ARC (Cook and Weisberg 1999).
 
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For the purposes of these analyses, the Indo-Canadian, First Nations, and “other” cultural groups were grouped together in the heterogeneous “other” cultural category. One participant who failed to report their cultural background was also included in the “other” cultural category. Withholding this participant from the analyses did not cause noteworthy changes in the obtained pattern of results.
 
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Note that if depression is associated with judgmental biases in non-social realms, this increases the risk that treatment techniques for social anxiety may not address the full range of judgmental biases in comorbid patients.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Cognitive Specificity and Affective Confounding in Social Anxiety: Does Depression Exacerbate Judgmental Bias?
Auteurs
Jennifer L. Trew
Lynn E. Alden
Publicatiedatum
01-08-2009
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 4/2009
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-008-9196-8

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