The Course of Anxiety-Specific Cognitive Bias Following Daycare/Inpatient Treatment in Youths with Social Phobia and School Absenteeism
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- <jats:p> Abstract: Social phobia (SP) is a common mental disorder in youth often accompanied by absence from school, which may require daycare or inpatient intervention (DC/IN). Objective: The present explorative study investigates changes in anxiety-specific implicit assumptions and interpretation bias following DC/IN. Methods: The study included 16 youths with SP ( M age = 15.8 [ SD = 1.24], females: 62.5 %) participating in DC/IN. We assessed the main outcomes using the Implicit Association Test and Affective Misattribution Procedure. Results: A large effect was shown for reducing implicit assumptions of feeling anxious ( p = .142; η<jats:sup> 2</jats:sup><jats:sub> p</jats:sub> = .171) and for reducing the implicit interpretation bias ( p = .137; η<jats:sup> 2</jats:sup><jats:sub> p</jats:sub> = .162). No change was indicated by effect size in implicit assumptions of feeling socially rejected ( p = .649; η<jats:sup> 2</jats:sup><jats:sub> p</jats:sub> = .016). Social phobia symptoms initially correlated with changes in implicit assumptions of feeling anxious ( r = .45). Conclusion: Effect sizes indicate that implicit anxiety-specific assumptions and interpretation bias descriptively improved following DC/IN. Thus, DC/IN may lead to meaningful improvements of anxiety-specific cognition in some individuals with high SP symptoms, emphasizing the relevance of cognitive behavioral approaches in the treatment of SP. Several limitations are discussed. </jats:p>
- Autoren
- Lisa Veit
- Stefanie Maria Jungmann
- Christine Margarete Freitag
- DOI
- 10.1024/1422-4917/a000951
- eISSN
- 1664-2880
- ISSN
- 1422-4917
- Zeitschrift
- Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2023
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- Published online
- Herausgeber
- Hogrefe Publishing Group
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/1422-4917/a000951
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2023
- Titel
- The Course of Anxiety-Specific Cognitive Bias Following Daycare/Inpatient Treatment in Youths with Social Phobia and School Absenteeism
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