TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krömer, Lisa
A1  - Jarczok, Tomasz Antoni
A1  - Althen, Heike
A1  - Mühlherr, Andreas
A1  - Howland, Vanessa
A1  - Jungmann, Stefanie
A1  - Freitag, Christine M.
T1  - Implicit assumptions and interpretation bias in youth with severe, chronic social phobia
T2  - European child & adolescent psychiatry
N2  - Interpretation bias and dysfunctional social assumptions are proposed to play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of social phobia (SP), especially in youth. In this study, we aimed to investigate disorder-specific implicit assumptions of rejection and implicit interpretation bias in youth with severe, chronic SP and healthy controls (CG). Twenty-seven youth with SP in inpatient/day-care treatment (M age = 15.6 years, 74% female) and 24 healthy controls (M age = 15.7 years, 54% female) were included. The Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) were completed to assess implicit assumptions and interpretation bias related to the processing of social and affective stimuli. No group differences were observed for the IAT controlling for depressive symptoms in the analyses. However, group differences were found regarding interpretation bias (p = .017, η2p = .137). Correlations between implicit scores and explicit questionnaire results were medium to large in the SP group (r =|.28| to |.54|, pall ≤ .05), but lower in the control group (r =|.04| to |.46|, pall ≤ .05). Our results confirm the finding of an interpretation bias in youth SP, especially regarding the implicit processing of faces, whereas implicit dysfunctional social assumptions of being rejected do not seem to be specific for SP. Future research should investigate the causal relationship of assumptions/interpretation bias and SP.
KW  - Affective Misattribution Procedure
KW  - Dysfunctional social assumptions
KW  - Implicit Association Test
KW  - Implicit  Processing
KW  - Interpretation Bias
KW  - Social Phobia
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/64062
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-640625
SN  - 1435-165X
N1  - Early View: Online Version before inclusion in an issue.
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 2021
IS  - online version before inclusion in an issue
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin ; Heidelberg
ER  -