@article{d4cb64b9d8ff440eb83931e668c5c171,
title = "Attention and Interpretation Biases and Attention Control in Youth with Social Anxiety Disorder",
abstract = "Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with threat-related attention and interpretation biases. Recent research suggests that attention control abilities moderate these associations. The current study examines threat-related attentional engagement and disengagement biases, negative interpretation bias, and attention control among youth with SAD (n=71) and non-anxious youth (n=42). We further explore interactions between cognitive biases, and between these biases and attention control, in predicting SAD. Relative to non-anxious youth, youth with SAD had poorer attention control, p=.001, greater difficulty disengaging from angry faces, p=.05, and a negative biased interpretation of ambiguous social scenarios, p =.01. However, no interactions were found among these factors in relation to SAD diagnosis or symptoms. The present results add to research on cognitive biases in anxious children, emphasizing a distinct contribution of each of these cognitive mechanisms, rather than their interactional influences. Findings are discussed in relation to cognitive developmental models of anxiety.",
keywords = "attention bias, attention control, interpretation bias, pediatric anxiety, social anxiety",
author = "Lee Pergamin-Hight and Shani Bitton and Pine, {Daniel S.} and Fox, {Nathan A.} and Yair Bar-Haim",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 SAGE Publications Ltd.",
year = "2016",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.5127/jep.053115",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "7",
pages = "484--498",
journal = "Journal of Experimental Psychopathology",
issn = "2043-8087",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "3",
}