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An integrative network approach to social anxiety disorder: The complex dynamic interplay among attentional bias for threat, attentional control, and symptoms

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Heeren, Alexandre, McNally, Richard J.·2016·Journal of Anxiety Disorders
DOI 10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.06.009
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Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with and maintained by biased attention allocation vis-à-vis social threat. However, over the last decade, there has been intense debate regarding whether AB in SAD results from preferential engagement with or difficulty in disengaging from social threat. Further, recent evidence suggests that AB may merely result from top-down attentional impairments vis-à-vis non-emotional material. Consequently, uncertainty still abounds regarding both the relative importance and the mutual interactions of these different processes and SAD symptoms. Inspired by novel network approaches to psychopathology that conceptualize symptoms as complex dynamic systems of mutually interacting variables, we computed weighted directed networks to investigate potential causal relations among laboratory measures of attentional components and symptoms of social anxiety disorder. Global and local connectivity of network structures revealed that the three most central variables were the orienting component of attention as well as both avoidance and fear of social situations. Neither preferential attention engagement with threat nor difficulty disengaging from threat exhibited high relative importance as predictors of symptoms in the network. Together, these findings suggest the value of extending the network approach beyond self-reported clinical symptoms to incorporate process-level measures from laboratory tasks to gain new insight into the mechanisms of SAD.

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Authors
Heeren, A., & McNally, R. J.
Affiliations
Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
Heeren, Alexandre
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-08
Volume
42
Pages
95-104
ISSN
0887-6185 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.06.009
OpenAlex
W2469879789
Cited by
170
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113
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FWCI
30.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Libraries (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Belgian National Fund (#FC78142)
  • Belgian Foundation for Vocation
  • “WBI World Excellence Grant” (sub/2015/228106243177)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
social anxiety disorder, attentional control, directed weighted networks, orienting, avoidance, top-down attention, symptom mechanisms
MeSH terms
Attentional Bias, Phobia, Social, Adolescent, Adult, Anxiety, Attention, Fear, Female, Humans, Male, Young Adult, Self Report, Symptom Assessment

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