Madeline M McGregor,Lilian Y Li,Esha Trivedi,Sarah E Sarkas,Aishwarya Sritharan,Lili Massac,Katherine Durham,Nicholas B Allen,Randy P Auerbach,Stewart A Shankman
{"title":"A longitudinal study of objective dating app usage and its relation to mental health in adolescents.","authors":"Madeline M McGregor,Lilian Y Li,Esha Trivedi,Sarah E Sarkas,Aishwarya Sritharan,Lili Massac,Katherine Durham,Nicholas B Allen,Randy P Auerbach,Stewart A Shankman","doi":"10.1037/abn0000999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000999","url":null,"abstract":"The use of dating apps among adolescents is a growing public concern. Past research, which almost exclusively relies on self-reported dating app usage, highlights an increased risk of victimization, but also opportunities to develop personal and social identity, particularly for minoritized youth. Thus, the present study used a mobile sensing app that passively tracked dating app usage over 6 months in 149 adolescents with a wide range of internalizing disorder severity. Thirty-five (23.5%) adolescents used dating apps across the 6 months (indexed by any keyboard input across dating apps), averaging 1.74 (SD = 1.12, range = 1-6) apps per person. At baseline, users (vs. nonusers) were older, more pubertally mature, and more likely to identify as sexual and gender minorities. Controlling for differences in demographic characteristics using propensity score matching, users and nonusers were largely comparable in clinical characteristics, with only a few differences evident: (a) greater self-reported frequency of risky behaviors at baseline and (b) greater number of weeks meeting major depressive disorder criteria across the follow-up period. Exploratory, within-person analyses in a subset of 18 users showed that a greater number of messages sent in dating apps was associated with a greater likelihood of having (subthreshold) depression symptoms in the concurrent week. Importantly, these findings are cross-sectional, and therefore the causal direction of effects remains unclear. Overall, passive monitoring of dating behaviors affords a unique lens on socioemotional development in youth, revealing nuanced relations between dating app usage and mental health among adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":73914,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychopathology and clinical science","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adam J Culbreth,Deanna M Barch,Subigya Nepal,Dror Ben-Zeev,Andrew Campbell,Erin K Moran
{"title":"Passive sensing of anhedonia and amotivation in a transdiagnostic sample.","authors":"Adam J Culbreth,Deanna M Barch,Subigya Nepal,Dror Ben-Zeev,Andrew Campbell,Erin K Moran","doi":"10.1037/abn0001000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0001000","url":null,"abstract":"Anhedonia and avolition are core clinical features of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, which have been traditionally assessed using clinical rating scales. However, recent developments in mobile technology allow for measurement of anhedonia and amotivation using passive sensors (e.g., global positioning system and actigraphy) and surveys completed in daily life (i.e., ecological momentary assessment [EMA]). The current study examined associations between clinical rating scales assessing anhedonia and amotivation and passive sensing measures. We aimed to determine the added value of passive sensing measures in explaining variability in clinical interviews, compared to models using EMA alone. We recruited a transdiagnostic sample (schizophrenia = 41, bipolar disorder = 47, and major depressive disorder = 48) to complete an in-person assessment session, as well as a 2-week EMA and passive sensing protocol. Passive sensing measures included physical distance traveled, number of phone calls sent/received, and number of texts sent/received. EMA included the assessment of interest and enjoyment in daily activities. We found that reports of interest/enjoyment in daily activities significantly predicted gold standard, clinical rating scales of anhedonia and avolition across diagnostic groups (standardized β = -0.208, p = .015, model R2 = .04). Including participant distance traveled into this model aided our ability to explain variance (standardized β = -0.280, p < .001, model R² = .12). Finally, adding call (standardized β = -0.170, p = .039) and text (standardized β = -0.198, p = .022) data further improved variance explained (model R² = .18). These data suggest that passive sensor streams strengthen the associations between assessments in daily life and gold standard ratings of anhedonia and avolition, suggesting \"added value\" in using these approaches to understand motivational experience in people with psychotic and mood pathology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":73914,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychopathology and clinical science","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vera M Ludwig, Carl A Bittendorf, Iris Reinhard, Marvin Guth, Esther Mühlbauer, Lisa-Marie Hartnagel, Wolfram E Severus, Michael Bauer, Philipp Ritter, Ulrich W Ebner-Priemer
{"title":"Predicting depressive and manic episodes in patients with bipolar disorder using statistical process control methods on passive sensing data.","authors":"Vera M Ludwig, Carl A Bittendorf, Iris Reinhard, Marvin Guth, Esther Mühlbauer, Lisa-Marie Hartnagel, Wolfram E Severus, Michael Bauer, Philipp Ritter, Ulrich W Ebner-Priemer","doi":"10.1037/abn0001002","DOIUrl":"10.1037/abn0001002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Early detection of emerging affective episodes is crucial in managing bipolar disorders (BD). Passive sensing-passive data collection via smartphone or wearable-offers a promising solution by potentially capturing altered activity, communication, and sleep patterns, indicative of manic and depressive episodes. Recently, statistical process control (SPC) has been introduced to psychopathology as a novel approach to identifying out-of-bounds processes. However, its application to mobile sensing data and to BD remains unexplored. To investigate SPC's potential in detecting emerging affective episodes, we utilized the BipoSense study, which monitored patients with BD. The BipoSense data cover 12 months of continuously collected passive sensing data via smartphone app, daily e-diary data, and biweekly expert interviews, that is, 26 in a row, to assess the psychopathological status. Compliance was excellent. A total of 26 depressive and 20 (hypo)manic emerging episodes in 28 patients were included in the analyses. SPC charts and multilevel analyses revealed heterogeneous results. Passive sensing, despite its potential as a low-burden, continuous measurement tool, did not demonstrate robust detection of affective episodes or preepisode weeks. Self-rated current bipolar mood, assessed via e-diary, outperformed passive sensing parameters in predicting current episodes, whereas predicting preepisode weeks was also limited. Notably, SPC with personalized control limits did not surpass established clinical cutoff scores. Even after systematic optimization of SPC settings, the combination of detected emerging episodes in relation to false alarms was insufficient for clinical use. Future studies warrant mobile sensing parameters closer aligned to psychopathology, thereby increasing validity, sensitivity, and specificity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":73914,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychopathology and clinical science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144676759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Shared and Distinct Effects of Everyday Physical Activity on Affective Well-Being in Schizophrenia, Major Depression, and Healthy Controls","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/abn0001001.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0001001.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73914,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychopathology and clinical science","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for A Longitudinal Study of Objective Dating App Usage and Its Relation to Mental Health in Adolescents","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/abn0000999.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000999.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73914,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychopathology and clinical science","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Expanding Life’s Radius? Evaluating Geolocation Data of Women With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Related to Childhood Abuse Throughout a Randomized Controlled Trial","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/abn0001009.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0001009.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73914,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychopathology and clinical science","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Ambulatory Physiological State Dynamics Predict Proximal Behavioral Markers of Affect Regulation in Everyday Life","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/abn0001030.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0001030.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73914,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychopathology and clinical science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Passive Sensing of Anhedonia and Amotivation in a Transdiagnostic Sample","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/abn0001000.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0001000.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73914,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychopathology and clinical science","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for From Bench to Bedside: Examining the Interpersonal and Affective Context of Borderline Personality Disorder as It Unfolds Over Time in Psychotherapy","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/abn0001032.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0001032.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73914,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychopathology and clinical science","volume":"675 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Friederike Elisabeth Hedley,Hilary Hei Ting Ngai,Jingwen Jin
{"title":"Looking around in distress: Judgmental and attentional biases in multievidence decision making revealed in anxiety.","authors":"Friederike Elisabeth Hedley,Hilary Hei Ting Ngai,Jingwen Jin","doi":"10.1037/abn0001018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0001018","url":null,"abstract":"Threat-related biases are core to anxiety. Different cognitive models coexist, with some emphasizing threat avoidance and others focusing on threat maintenance. Previous experimental research has mainly targeted how individuals perceive a single emotional stimulus, but in daily life, people often integrate emotional evidence from various sources to make a summary conclusion. Little is known about how anxiety and anxious apprehension (AP), a key symptom dimension, impact processing of such emotion ensembles. This study investigated threat-related judgmental and attentional biases in emotion ensemble decisions in anxiety. Adult participants with current anxiety disorders (N = 51) and controls (N = 61) took part in an emotion ensemble judgment task, where they decided whether the ensemble, consisting of emotional faces ranging from fearful to happy, was on average more fearful or happier. Eye movements were tracked to measure visual attention allocation, and AP was measured using the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. The anxiety group made more fearful judgments than the control group, and this judgmental bias was related to AP. Eye-tracking results revealed that the anxiety group paid more overt attention to happy stimuli than fearful stimuli, demonstrating fear avoidance. Finally, fear avoidance was associated with a higher proportion of fearful judgment. This study disclosed how individuals with anxiety assess multiple emotional evidence pieces to form a judgment, indicating overt avoidance of threatening evidence but higher weighing of such evidence in subsequent decisions. These findings support the threat-avoidance model in emotion ensemble judgments and the importance of reducing the saliency of threatening evidence during intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":73914,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychopathology and clinical science","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144645993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}