Kenny Yu , Tom Beckers , Francis Tuerlinckx , Wolf Vanpaemel , Jonas Zaman
{"title":"The assessment of gender differences in perceptual fear generalization and related processes","authors":"Kenny Yu , Tom Beckers , Francis Tuerlinckx , Wolf Vanpaemel , Jonas Zaman","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104640","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104640","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study we aimed to investigate gender differences in fear generalization tendencies in humans and, inspired by recent findings in animal research, examine whether any such differences could stem from differences in memory precision. Forty men and forty women underwent a differential fear conditioning procedure using geometric shapes as cues. Subsequently, generalized fear responses were assessed across a spectrum of perceptually similar shapes. Throughout generalization testing, perceptual memory accuracy was repeatedly probed using a stimulus recreation task. Using statistical and computational modeling, we found strong evidence for the absence of gender differences in fear learning and generalization behavior. The evidence for gender differences in related processes such as perception and memory was inconclusive. Although some of our findings hinted at the possibility that women may be more perceptive of physical differences between stimuli and have more accurate memory than men, those observations were not consistently replicated across experimental conditions and analytical approaches. Our results contribute to the emerging literature on gender differences in perceptual fear generalization in humans and underscore the need for further systematic research to explore the interplay between gender and mechanisms associated with fear generalization across different experimental contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 104640"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142401641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yafeng Pan , Matteo Sequestro , Armita Golkar , Andreas Olsson
{"title":"Handholding reduces the recovery of threat memories and magnifies prefrontal hemodynamic responses","authors":"Yafeng Pan , Matteo Sequestro , Armita Golkar , Andreas Olsson","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104641","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104641","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human touch is a powerful means of social and affective regulation, promoting safety behaviors. Yet, despite its importance across human contexts, it remains unknown how touch can promote the learning of new safety memories and what neural processes underlie such effects. The current study used measures of peripheral physiology and brain activity to examine the effects of interpersonal touch during safety learning (extinction) on the recovery of previously learned threat. We observed that handholding during extinction significantly reduced threat recovery, which was reflected in enhanced prefrontal hemodynamic responses. This effect was absent when learners were instructed to hold a rubber ball, independent of the presence of their partners. Our findings indicate that social touch contributes to safety learning, potentially influencing threat memories via prefrontal circuitry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 104641"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142376155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew G. Guzick , Sophie C. Schneider , Minjee Kook , Rebecca Greenberg , Amanda Perozo-Garcia , Morgan P. Lee , Jessica Garcia , Ogechi Cynthia Onyeka , David B. Riddle , Eric A. Storch
{"title":"Internet-based, parent-led cognitive behavioral therapy for autistic youth with anxiety-related disorders: A randomized trial comparing email vs. telehealth support","authors":"Andrew G. Guzick , Sophie C. Schneider , Minjee Kook , Rebecca Greenberg , Amanda Perozo-Garcia , Morgan P. Lee , Jessica Garcia , Ogechi Cynthia Onyeka , David B. Riddle , Eric A. Storch","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104639","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104639","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study tested two versions of parent-led, Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety among autistic youth; one that provided weekly email support (iCBT-Email), and one that provided alternating bi-weekly emails and video calls (iCBT-Video) across 12 weeks. It was expected that those in the iCBT-Video condition would complete more treatment content, which in turn would lead to more anxiety improvement. Fifty-seven autistic youth (7-15 years-old) with anxiety disorders were randomized to iCBT-Email or iCBT-Video. There were no significant differences in improvement in clinician-rated, child-reported, or parent-reported anxiety severity or functional impairment. Posttreatment response rates were 55% in iCBT-Email and 67% in iCBT-Video. Module completion predicted improved treatment outcome, though there was no difference in module completion across groups. Therapists spent an average of 16.29 min/family/week (<em>SD</em> = 7.11) in the iCBT-Email condition and 24.13 min/family/week (<em>SD</em> = 6.84) in the iCBT-Video condition. Email and telehealth-supported, parent-led iCBT both appear to be effective treatments for autistic youth with anxiety disorders that require reduced therapist effort. Future research should seek novel methods to enhance engagement with iCBT content.</div></div><div><h3>ClinicalTrials.gov identifier</h3><div>NCT05284435.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 104639"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142378380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ronald M. Rapee , Lauren F. McLellan , Talia Carl , Jennifer L. Hudson , Ellen Parker , Nora Trompeter , Viviana M. Wuthrich
{"title":"Testing theoretical processes that maintain paediatric social anxiety: A comparison between children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder, other mental disorders, and non-clinical controls","authors":"Ronald M. Rapee , Lauren F. McLellan , Talia Carl , Jennifer L. Hudson , Ellen Parker , Nora Trompeter , Viviana M. Wuthrich","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104638","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104638","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Paediatric social anxiety disorder (SoAD) responds poorly to treatment. Improved understanding of potential psychological maintaining processes may indicate fruitful directions to improve treatment outcomes. The current study compared self-reported psychological processes and state anxiety in response to two social tasks experienced by children and adolescents with SoAD against comparison samples.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>641 children and adolescents aged 6–17 years (<em>M</em>age = 9.45 yr; 47.6% girls) engaged in a brief, impromptu speech and a social discussion with a confederate. Participants included 307 with SoAD, 285 with other mental disorders, and 49 non-clinical controls. Participants who completed each task self-reported their anticipated probability and cost of negative evaluation, self-focused attention, personal evaluation of social performance, and engagement in post-event rumination (assessed 1 h later). Independent raters also scored their social performance. Relationships between the variables were tested through path analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Participants with SoAD were more likely to avoid and reported significantly greater state anxiety than both comparison groups. They also reported higher levels of each of the putative maintaining processes than either comparison group. In contrast, independent observers did not discriminate between groups on their overt social performance. Path analyses demonstrated good fit of a priori models to the data for both social tasks.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Paediatric SoAD is associated with strong expectation of the probability and cost of negative evaluation, excess self-focused attention, and more negative evaluation of one's own social performance. In turn, these putative processes are strong predictors of state anxiety and post-event processing in response to both a speech and social interaction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 104638"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796724001657/pdfft?md5=d6e64d85a3e19165cd91b7453411ba09&pid=1-s2.0-S0005796724001657-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142316215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine E. Myers , Chintan V. Dave , Megan S. Chesin , Brian P. Marx , Lauren M. St. Hill , Vibha Reddy , Rachael B. Miller , Arlene King , Alejandro Interian
{"title":"Initial evaluation of a personalized advantage index to determine which individuals may benefit from mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for suicide prevention","authors":"Catherine E. Myers , Chintan V. Dave , Megan S. Chesin , Brian P. Marx , Lauren M. St. Hill , Vibha Reddy , Rachael B. Miller , Arlene King , Alejandro Interian","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104637","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104637","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Develop and evaluate a treatment matching algorithm to predict differential treatment response to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for suicide prevention (MBCT-S) versus enhanced treatment-as-usual (eTAU).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Analyses used data from Veterans at high-risk for suicide assigned to either MBCT-S (n = 71) or eTAU (n = 69) in a randomized clinical trial. Potential predictors (n = 55) included available demographic, clinical, and neurocognitive variables. Random forest models were used to predict risk of suicidal event (suicidal behaviors, or ideation resulting in hospitalization or emergency department visit) within 12 months following randomization, characterize the prediction, and develop a Personalized Advantage Index (PAI).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A slightly better prediction model emerged for MBCT-S (AUC = 0.70) than eTAU (AUC = 0.63). Important outcome predictors for participants in the MBCT-S arm included PTSD diagnosis, decisional efficiency on a neurocognitive task (Go/No-Go), prior-year mental health residential treatment, and non-suicidal self-injury. Significant predictors for participants in the eTAU arm included past-year acute psychiatric hospitalizations, past-year outpatient psychotherapy visits, past-year suicidal ideation severity, and attentional control (indexed by Stroop task). A moderation analysis showed that fewer suicidal events occurred among those randomized to their PAI-indicated optimal treatment.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>PAI-guided treatment assignment may enhance suicide prevention outcomes. However, prior to real-world application, additional research is required to improve model accuracy and evaluate model generalization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 104637"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Induced ruminative and mindful self-focus in daily life across the menstrual cycle in women with and without premenstrual dysphoric disorder","authors":"Sibel Nayman , Isabelle Florence Schricker , Ioanna Franziska Grammatikos , Iris Reinhard , Christine Kuehner","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104630","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rumination and mindfulness are transdiagnostic risk and protective factors while their role in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is unclear. Thus, we aimed to investigate the cycle-phase-specific effects of rumination and mindful self-focus on momentary mood and cognitions in women with and without PMDD. This study involved brief ambulatory inductions of ruminative and mindful self-focus along with ambulatory assessments of negative (NA) and positive affect (PA), and rumination, present-moment-awareness (PMA) and self-acceptance on two days during both the follicular and late luteal phase in women with and without PMDD (n = 60 each). Compared to healthy controls, women with PMDD showed stronger increases in PA in response to mindful self-focus inductions during the late luteal phase, whereas no such group differences were identified during the follicular phase. Independent of clinical status and cycle phase, induced ruminative self-focus immediately increased momentary NA and rumination and decreased PMA, whereas induced mindful self-focus inductions increased momentary self-acceptance. Overall, higher PA-reactivity toward mindful self-focusing during late luteal phase in women with PMDD points to the potential of cycle-phase-specific mindfulness interventions for PMDD. Irrespective of cycle phase, rumination and mindfulness appear to represent targets for brief prevention and intervention measures for both non-clinical and clinical groups.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 104630"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142148238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Delaney Davey , Grace Macdonald-Gagnon , Brian W. Bauer , Scott A. Langenecker , Olusola Ajilore , K. Luan Phan , Heide Klumpp
{"title":"Repetitive negative thinking and suicidal ideation in internalizing psychopathologies: A replication study","authors":"Delaney Davey , Grace Macdonald-Gagnon , Brian W. Bauer , Scott A. Langenecker , Olusola Ajilore , K. Luan Phan , Heide Klumpp","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104622","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104622","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Suicidal ideation (SI), a risk factor for suicide, is prevalent in internalizing psychopathologies, including depression and anxiety. Rumination and worry are well-studied repetitive negative thinking (RNT) constructs implicated in internalizing psychopathologies. These constructs have shared and distinct characteristics. However, the relationship between rumination and worry and their associations with SI are not fully understood in clinical samples. The present study used correlational and regression analysis to evaluate these relationships as a secondary data analysis in treatment-seeking participants with internalizing psychopathologies in two independent samples (Study 1:<em>n</em> = 143; Study 2:<em>n</em> = 133). Results showed about half of the participants endorsed SI (Study 1:<em>n</em> = 79; Study 2:<em>n</em> = 71). Correlations revealed a significant, positive relationship between rumination and worry. Regression results with SI as the dependent variable showed rumination significantly positively corresponded with SI in both studies. Post-hoc partial correlations controlling for symptom severity (depression, anxiety), worry, and age showed the rumination-SI relationship was maintained in both studies. Findings for worry and SI were inconsistent between studies. Findings indicate rumination, but not worry, could be a stable, unique contributor to SI in internalizing psychopathologies. It may be useful to incorporate RNT into suicide risk assessment for individuals with internalizing conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 104622"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142096166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charlotte Smith , Catherine Ford , George Baldwin , Tine K. Jensen , Thanos Karatzias , Marianne Skogbrott Birkeland , Richard Meiser-Stedman
{"title":"Do psychological treatments for PTSD in children and young people reduce trauma-related appraisals? A systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"Charlotte Smith , Catherine Ford , George Baldwin , Tine K. Jensen , Thanos Karatzias , Marianne Skogbrott Birkeland , Richard Meiser-Stedman","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104621","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104621","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research is increasingly highlighting the role of negative trauma-related appraisals in child and adolescent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The cognitive model of PTSD claims that an essential mechanism of treatment is a reduction in these appraisals. The current systematic review with meta-analysis investigated the extent to which psychological treatments for PTSD reduce negative trauma-related appraisals in children and adolescents. Four databases (PsycINFO, Medline Complete, CINAHL Complete and PTSDpubs) were searched on the 11–12th December 2022. The Risk of Bias 2 (ROB-2) tool was used to assess for risk of bias. Thirteen studies were included in this review, comprising 937 child and adolescent participants. Using a random effects model to perform the meta-analysis, a medium pooled effect size for the effect of current treatments on trauma-related appraisals was found (<em>g</em> = −.67, 95% CI [-.86, −.48]). There was only a moderate level of heterogeneity between studies (<em>I</em><sup>2</sup> = 44.4%), increasing the confidence with which these findings can be interpreted. These results indicate that psychological treatments for child and adolescent PTSD significantly reduce negative trauma-related appraisals. However, it is important to note that no trial included in the review was categorised as having low risk of bias.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 104621"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796724001487/pdfft?md5=c622016bda8483847c47cf28d2e0bf0a&pid=1-s2.0-S0005796724001487-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142095418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul M. Cernasov , Erin C. Walsh , Gabriela A. Nagy , Jessica L. Kinard , Lisalynn Kelley , Rachel D. Phillips , Angela Pisoni , Joseph Diehl , Kevin Haworth , Jessica West , Louise Freeman , Courtney Pfister , McRae Scott , Stacey B. Daughters , Susan Gaylord , Gabriel S. Dichter , Moria J. Smoski
{"title":"A parallel-arm, randomized trial of Behavioral Activation Therapy for anhedonia versus mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for adults with anhedonia","authors":"Paul M. Cernasov , Erin C. Walsh , Gabriela A. Nagy , Jessica L. Kinard , Lisalynn Kelley , Rachel D. Phillips , Angela Pisoni , Joseph Diehl , Kevin Haworth , Jessica West , Louise Freeman , Courtney Pfister , McRae Scott , Stacey B. Daughters , Susan Gaylord , Gabriel S. Dichter , Moria J. Smoski","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Anhedonia, deficits in motivation and pleasure, is a transdiagnostic symptom of psychopathology and negative prognostic marker.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>In this randomized, parallel-arm clinical trial, a novel intervention, Behavioral Activation Treatment for Anhedonia (BATA), was compared to an individually administered Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in a transdiagnostic cohort of adults with clinically significant anhedonia (<span><span>ClinicalTrials.gov</span><svg><path></path></svg></span> Identifiers NCT02874534 and NCT04036136). Participants received 8–15 individual psychotherapy sessions, once weekly, with either BATA (n = 61) or MBCT (n = 55) and completed repeated self-report assessment of anhedonia and other internalizing symptoms.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Indicators of treatment feasibility were similar across conditions, though MBCT showed a trend towards greater attrition rates than BATA, with an adjusted odd's ratio of 2.04 [0.88, 4.73]. Treatment effects on the primary clinical endpoint of anhedonia symptoms did not significantly differ, with a 14-week estimated difference on the Snaith Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS) of −0.20 [-2.25, 1.84] points in BATA compared to MBCT (<em>z</em> = 0.19, <em>p</em> = 0.845, <em>d</em> = 0.05). The expected 14-week change in SHAPS scores across conditions was −7.18 [-8.22, −6.15] points (<em>z</em> = 13.6, <em>p</em> < 0.001, <em>d</em> = 1.69). There were no significant differences in the proportion of participants demonstrating reliable and clinically significant improvements in SHAPS scores, or in the magnitude of internalizing symptom reductions.</p></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><p>Limitations included a modest sample size, lack of longer-term follow up data, and non-preregistered analytic plan.</p></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><p>There was no evidence to support superior clinical efficacy of BATA over MBCT in a transdiagnostic cohort of adults with elevated anhedonia. Both interventions reduced anhedonia symptoms to a comparable magnitude of other existing treatments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 104620"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142096167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhiying Wu , Shengnan Li , Zhenfeng Chen , Yangang Nie
{"title":"An intervention study on college students’ employment anxiety based on interpretation bias modification: A randomized controlled experiment","authors":"Zhiying Wu , Shengnan Li , Zhenfeng Chen , Yangang Nie","doi":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104616","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brat.2024.104616","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>External environmental factors and internal cognitive bias affect college students' anxiety while job hunting. The current study is an intervention study on alleviating employment anxiety among college students through an Interpretation Bias Modification (IBM) computer-based intervention. A total of 79 valid participants were recruited. The Interpretation Bias Modification (IBM) group participants were required to complete employment-related IBM Internet training twice a week for three weeks. The placebo control group participants were required to complete neutral Internet training at the same frequency. The waiting list control group did not undergo any training. The groups were tested at three time points: prior to the intervention (pre-test), immediately after (post-test), and one month after the intervention (one-month follow-up). The IBM intervention group [<em>F</em>(2, 72) = 31.68, <em>p</em> < 0.001] showed greater significance in reducing employment anxiety than participants in the placebo control group [<em>F</em>(2, 72) = 9.83, <em>p</em> < 0.001] from the pre-test to one-month follow-up. There was no significant difference in employment anxiety among the waiting-list control group over time. The IBM intervention for college students can effectively decrease employment anxiety and reduce interpretation bias, which can be maintained at the one-month follow-up.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 104616"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142058559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}