The Longitudinal Interplay Between Attention Bias and Interpretation Bias in Social Anxiety in Adolescents

Abstract Background Cognitive biases are found to play a role in the onset and maintenance of social anxiety. However, particularly adolescence, link between different their predicting anxiety is far from clear. This study therefore investigated interplay attention bias interpretation relation adolescence across three years. Methods 816 adolescents grade 7 9 participated at yearly waves (52.8% boys, M age grade7 = 12.60). Social was measured with self-report questionnaire. Attention visual search task emotional faces. Textual vignettes assessed bias. Results Cross-lagged models showed that negative predicted an increase 8. effect not 8 9. did predict were longitudinally related each other, nor they interact other Conclusions Thus, no evidence for Combined Bias Hypothesis adolescents. Instead, our results suggest rather than contributes over time.