Are biased interpretations of ambiguous social and non-social situations a precursor, consequence or maintenance factor of youth loneliness?
Are biased interpretations of ambiguous social and non-social situations a precursor, consequence or maintenance factor of youth loneliness?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.brat.2021.103829
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发表时间：
2021-03-13
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Meehan, Alan J.
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作者：
Lau, Jennifer Y. F.;Shariff, Rimsha;Meehan, Alan J.
孤独在年轻人中很常见，有人认为这些负面情绪会导致焦虑和抑郁。在这里，我们第一次调查是否与孤独的心理模型一致，对社会情境的偏见解释可以前瞻性地预测青年的孤独感。104名年轻人在三个时间点完成了孤独感的测量和对模糊的社会和非社会（身体或健康相关）情况的解释，每个时间点之间间隔三个月。由于政府实施的社交距离措施（以控制COVID-19爆发）发生在时间2和3之间（而不是时间1和2之间），这使我们能够评估限制社交活动是否可以激发偏见解释风格对孤独的更大预测力。使用交叉滞后面板模型，我们表明，估计后的路径代表时间内跨变量（？同时？）路径和跨时withinvariable（？）稳定性？）路径，有没有明显的交叉滞后？因果？早期的诠释风格和后期的孤独之间的路径。在时间2和3之间，我们证明了一个显着的交叉滞后？后果严重吗早期的孤独和后来对社会环境的威胁性解释之间的路径，但在控制了并发的焦虑和抑郁后，这变得不显着。有偏见的解释风格可能反映了青年孤独感的一个并发维持因素。
Loneliness is common in youth, with suggestions that these negative emotions confer vulnerability for anxiety and depression. Here, we investigated for the first time whether, consistent with psychological models of loneliness, biased interpretations of social situations could prospectively predict loneliness in youth. 104 young people completed measures of loneliness and interpretations of ambiguous social and non-social (bodily or health-related) situations at three time-points with intervals of three months between each. As governmentimposed social distancing measures (to control the COVID-19 outbreak) occurred between Times 2 and 3 (but not between Times 1 and 2), this enabled us to assess whether restricted social activity could provoke greater predictive power of biased interpretational styles on loneliness. Using cross-lagged panel models, we showed that after estimating paths representing within-time across-variable (?concurrent?) paths and across-time withinvariable (?stability?) paths, there were no significant cross-lag ?causal? paths between earlier interpretational style and later loneliness. Between Time 2 and 3, we demonstrated a significant cross-lag ?consequential? path between earlier loneliness and later threatening interpretations of social situations, but this became nonsignificant after controlling for concurrent anxiety and depression. Biased interpretational style may reflect a concurrent maintenance factor of youth loneliness.