ArticleAnxiety, stress, and coping2018
Comorbid interpretation and expectancy bias in social anxiety and alcohol use.
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- Nicotine-related interpretation biases in cigarette smoking individuals.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Web-Based Cognitive Bias Modification Program for Young People With Social Anxiety and Hazardous Alcohol Use: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
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- Emotional Bias Modification in Youths with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): New Research Vista.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Potions for Emotions: Do self-reported individual differences in negative-emotional drinking predict alcohol consumption in the laboratory following exposure to a negative experience?Addictive behaviors reports · 2020Article
- Associations among interpretation bias, craving, and abstinence self-efficacy in adults with substance use disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
- Alcohol use in late adolescence and early adulthood: The role of generalized anxiety disorder and drinking to cope motives.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn two studies, the present research examined whether being high in both social anxiety and alcohol use disorder symptoms is associated with a comorbid interpretation and expectancy bias that reflects their bidirectional relationship.
designCross-sectional, quantitative surveys.
methodsMeasures of social anxiety and alcohol use disorder symptoms, as well as an interpretation and expectancy bias task assessing biases for social anxiety, drinking, and comorbid social anxiety and drinking.
resultsIn Study 1 (N = 447), individuals high (vs. low) in social anxiety had stronger social threat bias and individuals high (vs. low) in alcohol use disorder symptoms had stronger drinking bias. Those high in both social anxiety and alcohol use disorder symptoms endorsed interpretations and expectancies linking social interaction with alcohol use. Comorbid bias predicted membership into the high social anxiety/drinking group, even after taking into account single-disorder biases. In Study 2 (N = 325), alcohol use disorder symptoms predicted drinking bias and social anxiety symptoms predicted social anxiety bias. Alcohol use disorder symptoms, social anxiety symptoms, and their interaction predicted comorbid interpretation and expectancy bias.
conclusionResults indicate unique cognitive vulnerability markers for persons with comorbid social anxiety and alcohol use disorder symptoms, which may improve detection and treatment of this serious comorbidity.
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