Lara Khalifeh, Avshalom Caspi, Kallisse R. Dent, HonaLee Harrington, Madeline H. Meier, Richie Poulton, Sandhya Ramrakha, Terrie E. Moffitt, Leah S. Richmond-Rakerd
{"title":"Characterizing Midlife-Onset Alcohol Dependence: Implications for Etiology, Prevention, and Healthy Aging","authors":"Lara Khalifeh, Avshalom Caspi, Kallisse R. Dent, HonaLee Harrington, Madeline H. Meier, Richie Poulton, Sandhya Ramrakha, Terrie E. Moffitt, Leah S. Richmond-Rakerd","doi":"10.1177/21677026241260249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241260249","url":null,"abstract":"We evaluated the developmental epidemiology of midlife-onset alcohol dependence (AD) in the Dunedin Study ( N = 1,037), a population-representative cohort followed across 5 decades. At ages 18, 21, 26, 32, 38, and 45, past-year AD prevalence was 11.0%, 18.4%, 13.6%, 8.1%, 9.6%, and 11.3%, respectively. As expected, relative to never-diagnosed individuals, individuals with early onset AD (first diagnosis at age 18 or age 21, prevalence = 22.9%) were distinguished by a range of early life and adult correlates. Individuals with midlife-onset AD (first diagnosis at age 38 or age 45, prevalence = 5.6%) were distinguished by fewer early life correlates, but exhibited a family history of AD and adolescent dysregulation and marijuana use. They were characterized by an array of adult correlates, including internalizing disorders, mental-health-treatment contact, criminal behavior, perceived stress, coping by drinking, lower likelihood of marriage and parenthood, and reduced preparedness for old age. They also experienced more adult alcohol-related impairment than the early onset group. Results can guide efforts to reduce midlife alcohol-related problems and support healthy aging.","PeriodicalId":54234,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychological Science","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142216079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Miriam K. Forbes, Ashley L. Watts, Maddison Twose, Angelique Barrett, Jennifer L. Hudson, Heidi J. Lyneham, Lauren McLellan, Nicola C. Newton, Gemma Sicouri, Cath Chapman, Anna McKinnon, Ronald M. Rapee, Tim Slade, Maree Teesson, Kristian Markon, Matthew Sunderland
{"title":"A Hierarchical Model of the Symptom-Level Structure of Psychopathology in Youth","authors":"Miriam K. Forbes, Ashley L. Watts, Maddison Twose, Angelique Barrett, Jennifer L. Hudson, Heidi J. Lyneham, Lauren McLellan, Nicola C. Newton, Gemma Sicouri, Cath Chapman, Anna McKinnon, Ronald M. Rapee, Tim Slade, Maree Teesson, Kristian Markon, Matthew Sunderland","doi":"10.1177/21677026241257852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241257852","url":null,"abstract":"More comprehensive modeling of psychopathology in youth is needed to facilitate a developmentally informed expansion of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) model. In this study, we examined a symptom-level model of the structure of psychopathology in children and adolescents—most aged 11 to 17 years—bringing together data from large clinical, community, and representative samples ( N = 18,290) covering nearly all major forms of mental disorders and related content domains (e.g., aggression). The resulting hierarchical and dimensional model was based on the points of convergence among three statistical approaches and included 15 narrow dimensions nested under four broad dimensions of (a) internalizing, (b) externalizing, (c) eating pathology, and (d) uncontrollable worry, obsessions, and compulsions. We position these findings within the context of the existing literature and articulate implications for future research. Ultimately, these findings add to the rapidly growing literature on the structure of psychopathology in youth and move a step closer toward quantifying (dis)continuities in psychopathology’s structure across the life span.","PeriodicalId":54234,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychological Science","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea L. Howard, Tess M.S. Neal, Olivia J. Kirtley, Heather L. Urry, Jennifer L. Tackett
{"title":"Open Science at Clinical Psychological Science: Reflections on Progress, Lessons Learned, and Suggestions for Continued Improvement","authors":"Andrea L. Howard, Tess M.S. Neal, Olivia J. Kirtley, Heather L. Urry, Jennifer L. Tackett","doi":"10.1177/21677026241255882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241255882","url":null,"abstract":"Open science is challenging and frequently time-consuming work, but the payoff is greater assurance that published research is transparent, conducted rigorously, and protected against some forms of researcher bias. In this editorial, we reflect on progress made toward the integration of open-science practices at Clinical Psychological Science ( CPS) 7 years after badges were introduced in the journal and 3 years after open science was initiated as an editorial priority at CPS. Along with establishing open science as an editorial priority, the first team of Open Science Advisors was established to oversee and facilitate preregistration, open materials, and open data badge applications. Here, we discuss how these practices have evolved over time, highlight best practices and common challenges in this work, and emphasize next steps for the future of open science in clinical-psychology research.","PeriodicalId":54234,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychological Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obsessive-Compulsive Visual Search: A Reexamination of Presence–Absence Asymmetries","authors":"Noam Sarna, Matan Mazor, Reuven Dar","doi":"10.1177/21677026241258380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241258380","url":null,"abstract":"In previous research, obsessive-compulsive tendencies were associated with longer search times in visual-search tasks. These findings, replicated and extended to a clinical sample, were specific to target-absent trials, with no effect on target-present trials. This selectivity was interpreted as checking behavior in response to mild uncertainty. However, an alternative interpretation is that individuals with high obsessive-compulsive (OC+) tendencies have a specific difficulty with inference about absence. In two large-scale, preregistered, online experiments (conceptual replication: N = 1,007; direct replication: N = 226), we sought to replicate the original finding and elucidate its underlying cause: an increased sensitivity to mild uncertainty or a selective deficiency in inference about absence. Both experiments showed no evidence of prolonged search times in target-absent trials for OC+ individuals. Taken together, our results do not support the notion that inducing mild uncertainty in the form of target absence leads to excessive checking among OC+ individuals.","PeriodicalId":54234,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychological Science","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashley L. Watts, Kenneth J. Sher, Andrew C. Heath, Douglas Steinley, Michael Brusco
{"title":"“General Addiction Liability” Revisited","authors":"Ashley L. Watts, Kenneth J. Sher, Andrew C. Heath, Douglas Steinley, Michael Brusco","doi":"10.1177/21677026241245070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241245070","url":null,"abstract":"Although substance use disorders are widely known to be influenced by myriad etiologic factors, recent research promotes the notion that liability toward addiction broadly construed can be described by a single, unitary dimension that we term “general addiction liability.” Here, we revisit the concept of general addiction liability by placing it at greater theoretical and empirical risk. To do so, we used data from two epidemiologic samples ( N range = 262–8,552) and employed varied quantitative methods to examine the associations between alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, and opioid use disorders. We did not find strong evidence for general addiction liability. Nevertheless, consequence-based features (e.g., social/interpersonal harm, hazardous use) tended to form cross-substance connections. We contextualize our findings in the broader literature on addiction liability and offer several explanations for why we and others arrive at competing conclusions with respect to the robustness and nature of general addiction liability.","PeriodicalId":54234,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychological Science","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141147632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristen Benito, Andre Pittig, Jonathan Abramowitz, Joanna J. Arch, Denise Chavira, Rianne de Kleine, Alessandro S. De Nadai, Dirk Hermans, Stefan G. Hofmann, Jürgen Hoyer, Jonathan D. Huppert, Katharina Kircanski, Peter M. McEvoy, Heidi Meyer, Marie-H. Monfils, Santiago Papini, Winfried Rief, David Rosenfield, Eric A. Storch, Michael J. Telch, Michael W. Otto, Jasper A. J. Smits
{"title":"Mechanisms of Change in Exposure Therapy for Anxiety and Related Disorders: A Research Agenda","authors":"Kristen Benito, Andre Pittig, Jonathan Abramowitz, Joanna J. Arch, Denise Chavira, Rianne de Kleine, Alessandro S. De Nadai, Dirk Hermans, Stefan G. Hofmann, Jürgen Hoyer, Jonathan D. Huppert, Katharina Kircanski, Peter M. McEvoy, Heidi Meyer, Marie-H. Monfils, Santiago Papini, Winfried Rief, David Rosenfield, Eric A. Storch, Michael J. Telch, Michael W. Otto, Jasper A. J. Smits","doi":"10.1177/21677026241240727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241240727","url":null,"abstract":"Anxiety and related disorders are a significant public-health burden with rising prevalence in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As demand for effective anxiety treatment increases, so too does the need for strategies to bolster treatment outcomes. Research on the mechanisms of exposure therapy, the frontline behavioral treatment, will be critically important for optimizing clinical outcomes. We outline an initial agenda for future research on the mechanisms of change of exposure therapy, developed in collaboration with a large international team of researchers through the Exposure Therapy Consortium. Key questions and recommendations for future research focus on four priority areas: conceptualization, measurement, study design/analysis, and individual/contextual differences. Rising to the challenge of addressing these questions will require coordinated action and availability of centralized tools that can be used across trials, settings, and research groups.","PeriodicalId":54234,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychological Science","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141147602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katharine E. Daniel, Robert G. Moulder, Steven M. Boker, Bethany A. Teachman
{"title":"Trait Social Anxiety Moderates the Relationship Between Emotion-Regulation Strategy Switching and State Anxiety in Daily Life","authors":"Katharine E. Daniel, Robert G. Moulder, Steven M. Boker, Bethany A. Teachman","doi":"10.1177/21677026241249192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241249192","url":null,"abstract":"Difficulty knowing when to switch emotion-regulation (ER) strategies is theorized to be a key pathway to emotion dysregulation, but relatively few studies have empirically examined this. We applied a new order-based metric to quantify how 109 socially anxious people switched between 19 different ER strategies (or chose not to regulate at all) throughout a 5-week ecological-momentary-assessment (EMA) study that yielded 12,616 observations. We tested whether state- and trait-anxiety reports and their interaction predicted differences in ER strategy switching. Results indicated that people with relatively higher social-anxiety symptoms switch more often between ER strategies during periods of high average state anxiety but less often during periods of high variability in state anxiety than less socially anxious people. Interventions focused on helping socially anxious people learn how ER strategies are connected to variations in state anxiety might hold promise to increase adaptive ER-switching decisions. More broadly, expanding ER-switching interventions to consider the role of changing situations is an important next step.","PeriodicalId":54234,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychological Science","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140930719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cheri A. Levinson, Caroline Christian, Carolyn B. Becker
{"title":"How Idiographic Methodologies Can Move the Clinical-Science Field Forward to Integrate Personalized Treatment Into Everyday Clinical Care and Improve Treatment Outcomes","authors":"Cheri A. Levinson, Caroline Christian, Carolyn B. Becker","doi":"10.1177/21677026231217316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026231217316","url":null,"abstract":"The research–practice gap refers to the fact that most evidence-based treatments created by researchers are not used in routine clinical care, which affects real-world treatment outcomes negatively. One key reason that evidence-based care is not used more frequently is its nonpersonalized format. For example, most evidence-based treatments are based on averages and are limited in addressing comorbidity, heterogeneity, and the needs of clients with minoritized identities. These limitations reduce therapist uptake of evidence-based treatment at large. As a result, most patients seeking treatment in community settings do not receive evidence-based care, which could more quickly and effectively reduce mental-health suffering. Furthermore, even clinicians who want to engage in evidence-based practice must still rely on their clinical judgment in decision-making when treatments fail to address client-specific needs. This reliance on decision-making can influence outcomes negatively. We propose that idiographic (i.e., one-person; N = 1) methodologies (data analysis of one person’s data) combined with digital mental-health technology could help reduce the research–practice gap and improve treatment outcomes. In this article, we outline the many issues contributing to these problems and how idiographic methods of personalization can address these issues. We provide an overview of idiographic methodologies and examples of how to use these methods to personalize existing evidence-based treatments with patients. Finally, we conclude with recommendations for future research and movement within the field that is needed to propel this type of personalization into routine clinical care to reduce the research–practice gap and improve treatment outcomes broadly.","PeriodicalId":54234,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychological Science","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140584883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Formal Model of Affiliative Interpersonality","authors":"Stefan Westermann, Sven Banisch","doi":"10.1177/21677026241229663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241229663","url":null,"abstract":"Capturing the complexity of interpersonal dynamics—emerging from approach and avoidance motives of two individuals in dyadic interplay—remains challenging. In line with calls for embracing complexity in psychological research using formal modeling, we employed evolutionary game theory to investigate the underlying mechanisms of affiliative interpersonality. We constructed a relational state space that represents the ways of relating available in the momentary state of an interpersonal relationship. Next, we modeled relationships as trajectories in that relational space. Qualitatively different interpersonal dynamics emerged: (a) global stability with only one relational attractor (e.g., pure reciprocal friendliness), (b) bistability with two mutually exclusive attractors (e.g., either pure friendliness or pure distance), and (c) cycles between friendliness and distance in the relational space. The bistable dynamics appear to resemble the phenomenon of interpersonal complementarity (e.g., friendliness invites friendliness). Furthermore, the model generates psychopathologically relevant dynamics (e.g., oscillating, unstable interpersonal relationships in borderline personality disorder).","PeriodicalId":54234,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychological Science","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140584426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew J. Hirshberg, Cortland J. Dahl, Daniel Bolt, Richard J. Davidson, Simon B. Goldberg
{"title":"Psychological Mediators of Reduced Distress: Preregistered Analyses From a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Smartphone-Based Well-Being Training","authors":"Matthew J. Hirshberg, Cortland J. Dahl, Daniel Bolt, Richard J. Davidson, Simon B. Goldberg","doi":"10.1177/21677026241233262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241233262","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding why interventions work is essential to optimizing them. Although mechanistic theories of meditation-based interventions (MBIs) exist, empirical evidence is limited. We randomly assigned 662 adults (79.9% reported clinical levels of anxiety or depressive symptoms) to a 4-week smartphone-based MBI or wait-list control condition early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological distress and four theory-driven preregistered psychological mediators of well-being (mindful action, loneliness, cognitive defusion, and purpose) were assessed five times during the intervention period and at 3-month follow-up. In preregistered analyses, assignment to the intervention predicted significant gains on all mediators, which, in turn, significantly mediated follow-up distress (21.9%–62.5% of intervention effect on distress). No significant mediation pathway was observed in an exploratory multiple mediator analysis, but reduced loneliness accounted for 61.7% of the combined indirect effect. Multiple psychological pathways may mediate reduced distress in a digital MBI.","PeriodicalId":54234,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychological Science","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140124719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}