Daily prediction of inpatient suicide attempts using routinely collected theory-driven data.
This study suggests routinely monitoring interpersonal factors and hopelessness may help identify increased short-term risk of SAs among psychiatric inpatients. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology)
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - December 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Prospective examination of mechanisms linking minority stress and anxious/depressed affect at the event level: The roles of emotion regulation strategies and proximal minority stressors.
Conclusions: Results provided support for the roles of rumination and expressive suppression as mechanisms of linking minority stress and anxious/depressed affect. The concurrent evidence for other mechanisms suggests that future research with more temporal resolution is necessary to determine the temporality and directionality of these associations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology)
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - December 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The affective benefits of real-world exploration during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol 133(2), Feb 2024, 167-177; doi:10.1037/abn0000888Increasing daily exploration is linked to improvements in affective well-being. However, COVID-19 elevated uncertainty when leaving the home, altering the risk-reward of balance of geospatial novelty. To this end, we simultaneously collected real-world geospatial tracking and experience sampling of emotion, prior to and during the first year of the pandemic in 630 individuals. COVID-19 reduced exploration and subjective well-being. Yet, despite the health risks of exploring during the pandemic, the days of highest affectiv...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - December 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Neurocognitive risk phenotyping to predict mood symptoms in adolescence.
This study used machine learning to test whether neurocognitive variables predicted future manic or anhedonic symptoms in two adolescent samples risk-enriched for lifetime mood disorders (Sample 1, n = 73, ages = 13–25, M [SD] = 19.22 [2.49] years, 68% lifetime mood disorder) or familial mood disorders (Sample 2, n = 154, ages = 13–21, M [SD] = 16.46 [1.95] years, 62% first-degree family history of mood disorder). Participants completed cognitive testing and functional magnetic resonance imaging at baseline, for behavioral and neural measures of reward processing and executive functioning. Next, participants completed ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - December 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Acute dissociation as part of the defense cascade: Associations with behavioral, autonomic, and experiential threat responses in posttraumatic stress disorder.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol 133(1), Jan 2024, 76-89; doi:10.1037/abn0000873Dissociative symptoms, such as depersonalization and derealization, are experienced by about half of individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Theoretical models propose that acute dissociation is accompanied by specific behavioral, physiological, and experiential alterations and contributes to unfavorable PTSD symptom course. Yet, empirical evidence is scarce. Here, we explored associations between dissociative and behavioral, physiological, and experiential threat responses as well as effects of dissociative r...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - December 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Do emotion regulation difficulties in depression extend to social context? Everyday interpersonal emotion regulation in current and remitted major depressive disorder.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol 133(1), Jan 2024, 61-75; doi:10.1037/abn0000877Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) have difficulties regulating emotion on their own. As people also use social resources to regulate emotion (i.e., interpersonal emotion regulation [IER]), we examined whether these difficulties extend to IER in current and remitted MDD compared to those with no psychiatric disorders (i.e., controls). Adults with current MDD (n = 48), remitted MDD (n = 80), and controls (n = 87) assessed via diagnostic interviewing completed 2-week experience sampling, reporting on how frequent...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - December 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Differential deficits in social versus monetary reinforcement learning in schizophrenia: Associations with facial emotion recognition.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol 133(1), Jan 2024, 37-47; doi:10.1037/abn0000869Despite evidence that individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) have an intact desire for social relationships, they have small social networks and report high levels of loneliness. Difficulty with reinforcement learning (RL), the ability to update behavior based on feedback, may inhibit the formation and maintenance of social relationships in SZ. However, impaired RL in SZ has largely been demonstrated via monetary tasks. Thus, it remains unclear whether SZ are similarly impaired in social and monetary RL, or whether social-speci...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - November 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Disaggregating within- and between-person effects of affect on drinking behavior in a clinical sample with alcohol use disorder.
Conclusions: These findings are in contrast to recent meta-analytic findings and highlight the complexity of affect-drinking relations among those diagnosed with AUD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology)
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - November 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Prospective reciprocal relations between social support and eating disorder symptoms.
In this study, 496 adolescent girls reported perceived social support and completed an eating disorder diagnostic interview annually for 7 years. Deficits in perceived peer, but not parental, support predicted future increases in eating disorder symptoms (p = .019, partial r = −.10). Furthermore, initial eating disorder symptoms predicted future reductions in perceived peer support (p = .016, partial r = −.11) but not parental support. Interestingly, these relations became nonsignificant when we controlled for negative affect and body mass index, suggesting that comorbid mood disorders and elevated body weight might pa...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - November 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A dynamic perspective on depressive symptoms during the first year postpartum.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol 132(8), Nov 2023, 949-960; doi:10.1037/abn0000878The current study used novel methodology to characterize intraindividual variability in the experience of dynamic, within-person changes in postpartum depressive (PPD) symptoms across the first year postpartum and evaluated maternal and infant characteristics as predictors of between-person differences in intraindividual variability in PPD symptoms over time. With a sample of 322 low-income Mexican-origin mothers (Mage = 27.79; SD = 6.48), PPD symptoms were assessed at 11 time points from 3 weeks to 1 year postpartum (Edin...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - November 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A transdiagnostic, dimensional classification of anxiety shows improved parsimony and predictive noninferiority to DSM.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol 132(8), Nov 2023, 937-948; doi:10.1037/abn0000863The current conceptualization of anxiety in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5)—which includes 11 anxiety disorders plus additional anxiety-related conditions—does not align with accumulating evidence that anxiety is transdiagnostic and dimensional in nature. Transdiagnostic dimensional anxiety models have been proposed, yet they measure anxiety at either a very broad (e.g., “anxiety”) or very narrow (e.g., “performance anxiety”) level, overlooking intermediate prope...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - November 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Altered attentional processing of facial expression features in severe alcohol use disorder: An eye-tracking study.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol 133(1), Jan 2024, 103-114; doi:10.1037/abn0000868Social cognition impairments, and notably emotional facial expression (EFE) recognition difficulties, as well as their functional and clinical correlates, are increasingly documented in severe alcohol use disorder (SAUD). However, insights into their underlying mechanisms are lacking. Here, we tested if SAUD was associated with alterations in the attentional processing of EFEs. In a preregistered study, 40 patients with SAUD and 40 healthy controls (HCs) had to identify the emotional expression conveyed by faces while havi...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - November 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Challenges and ways forward in bridging units of analysis in clinical psychological science.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol 132(7), Oct 2023, 888-896; doi:10.1037/abn0000879For decades, experiential measures (i.e., self- and informant-report) have dominated clinical psychological science as the primary methods of investigating the nature, causes, and consequences of psychopathology. Recent efforts to understand psychopathology in a comprehensive manner, bridging across measurement modalities and study designs, have yielded disappointing results and small cross-domain effect sizes. This problem has stymied progress in diagnosing and treating mental illness. We contend that we continue to strug...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - October 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
To fully leverage fine-grained clinical phenomena, we have to think beyond DSM-based concepts and the presumption of diagnostic kinds.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol 132(7), Oct 2023, 881-887; doi:10.1037/abn0000876In light of the limitations of dominant psychiatric classification systems such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), this special section positions fine-grained clinical phenomena as key to the future of psychopathology research. This shift is necessary given the constraints DSM-based diagnoses place on (a) the specificity of theories and models of psychopathology and (b) efforts to develop alternative paradigms. Fine-grained clinical phenomena offer comparative advantages, but transitioning ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - October 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Evaluating alternative models of youth externalizing using quantitative genetic analyses.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol 132(7), Oct 2023, 833-846; doi:10.1037/abn0000874Interest has increased in the recent literature on characterizing psychopathology dimensionally in hierarchical models. One dimension of psychopathology that has received considerable attention is externalizing. Although extensively studied and well-characterized in late adolescents and adults, delineation of the externalizing spectrum in youth has lagged behind. As a complement to structural analyses of externalizing, in this study, we use quantitative genetic analyses of twin data to adjudicate among alternative models o...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Psychology - October 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
