Neuroticism and Interpretive Bias as Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depression

Meghan Vinograd; Alexander Williams; Michael Sun; Lyuba Bobova; Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor; Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn; Susan Mineka; Richard E. Zinbarg; Michelle G. Craske

doi:10.1177/2167702620906145

Neuroticism and Interpretive Bias as Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depression

Meghan Vinograd^*, Alexander Williams, Michael Sun, Lyuba Bobova, Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor, Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn, Susan Mineka, Richard E. Zinbarg, Michelle G. Craske

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Neuroticism has been associated with depression and anxiety both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Interpretive bias has been associated with depression and anxiety, primarily in cross-sectional and bias induction studies. The purpose of the current study was to examine the role of interpretive bias as a prospective risk factor and a mediator of the relation between neuroticism and depressive and anxious symptoms in young adults assessed longitudinally. Neuroticism significantly predicted a broad general-distress dimension but not intermediate fears and anhedonia-apprehension dimensions or a narrow social-fears dimension. Neuroticism also significantly predicted negative interpretive bias for social scenarios. Negative interpretive bias for social scenarios did not significantly predict dimension scores, nor did it mediate the relation between neuroticism and general distress or social fears. These results suggest that although neuroticism relates to negative interpretive bias, its risk for symptoms of depression and anxiety is at most weakly conferred through negative interpretive bias.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	641-656
Number of pages	16
Journal	Clinical Psychological Science
Volume	8
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620906145
State	Published - Jul 1 2020

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M. Sun is now at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College. L. Bobova is now at the Psychology Department, Adler University, Chicago Campus. K. B. Wolitzky-Taylor is now at the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles. S. Vrshek-Schallhorn is now at the Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. A version of the project in the current manuscript was presented by M. Vinograd at the 2016 Anxiety and Depression Association of America Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.

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anxiety
depression
interpretive bias
neuroticism
open data

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