A longitudinal investigation of the relationships among PTSD symptoms and various cognitive biases in children and adolescents.

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-12 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2026.2615345

Fulei Geng, Xiaoyan Xiong, Lan Zhang

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Abstract

Background: This study aimed to investigate the prospective associations among cognitive biases, including negative appraisals, attention to threat, belief inflexibility, and jumping to conclusions, and to examine bidirectional relationships between PTSD symptoms and these biases.

Method: A total of 1,549 trauma-exposed children and adolescents (52.6% male; mean age = 13.66 years, SD = 1.24) were surveyed at baseline and one-year follow-up using self-report questionnaires. Cross-lagged models were used to examine significant associations via path analysis.

Results: Negative appraisals, attention to threat and PTSD symptoms prospectively predicted and were predicted by one another. No significant prospective links were found among attention to threat, belief inflexibility, and jumping to conclusions, although these variables showed strong concurrent correlations. Additionally, baseline PTSD symptoms and negative appraisals were associated with increased belief inflexibility at follow-up.

Conclusions: Our findings reveal a vicious circle involving negative appraisals, attention to threat and PTSD symptoms in trauma-exposed children and adolescents. These cognitive biases play a critical role in the development and maintenance of PTSD. Interventions combining multiple forms of cognitive bias modification may enhance PTSD treatment and prevention.

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儿童和青少年PTSD症状与各种认知偏差关系的纵向调查。

背景：本研究旨在探讨负面评价、注意威胁、信念僵化和草率下结论等认知偏差之间的潜在关联，并探讨PTSD症状与这些偏差之间的双向关系。方法：对1549名创伤暴露儿童和青少年（男性52.6%，平均年龄13.66岁，SD = 1.24）进行基线调查和1年随访。交叉滞后模型通过通径分析来检验显著关联。结果：消极评价、威胁注意和PTSD症状具有前瞻性预测和相互预测作用。注意威胁、信念不灵活性和草率下结论之间没有显著的前瞻性联系，尽管这些变量显示出很强的并发相关性。此外，基线PTSD症状和负面评价与随访时信念不灵活性增加有关。结论：我们的研究结果揭示了创伤暴露儿童和青少年的负面评价、对威胁的关注和创伤后应激障碍症状之间的恶性循环。这些认知偏差在PTSD的发展和维持中起着至关重要的作用。结合多种形式的认知偏差矫正的干预可能会加强PTSD的治疗和预防。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Multiple-

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期刊介绍： This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.