A New Social Picture Task to Assess Interpretation Bias related to social fears in adolescents.

ABSTRACT: This pre-registered study focused on developing a new social picture task to assess interpretation bias related to social fears in adolescents. Using such a pictorial task may increase ecological validity and readily trigger emotional processes compared to more traditional verbal tasks that are often used. In the picture task, ambiguous social pictures were presented, followed by a positive and negative interpretation. In this study, we examined how the new task relates to an already existing interpretation bias task and how the new pictorial task relates to social fears in adolescents. The sample consisted of 329 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years. Interpretation bias was assessed with the newly developed pictorial task and with more traditional verbal vignettes. Social fears were measured w

SUBMITTER: Henricks LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9013980 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature