Abstract
BackgroundOptimal psychological development is dependent upon a complex interplay between individual and situational factors. Investigating the development of these factors in adolescence will help to improve understanding of emotional vulnerability and resilience. The CogBIAS longitudinal study (CogBIAS-L-S) aims to combine cognitive and genetic approaches to investigate risk and protective factors associated with the development of mood and impulsivity-related outcomes in an adolescent sample.MethodsCogBIAS-L-S is a three-wave longitudinal study of typically developing adolescents conducted over 4 years, with data collection at age 12, 14 and 16. At each wave participants will undergo multiple assessments including a range of selective cognitive processing tasks (e.g. attention bias, interpretation bias, memory bias) and psychological self-report measures (e.g. anxiety, depression, resilience). Saliva samples will also be collected at the baseline assessment for genetic analyses. Multilevel statistical analyses will be performed to investigate the developmental trajectory of cognitive biases on psychological functioning, as well as the influence of genetic moderation on these relationships.DiscussionCogBIAS-L-S represents the first longitudinal study to assess multiple cognitive biases across adolescent development and the largest study of its kind to collect genetic data. It therefore provides a unique opportunity to understand how genes and the environment influence the development and maintenance of cognitive biases and provide insight into risk and protective factors that may be key targets for intervention.
Highlights
Optimal psychological development is dependent upon a complex interplay between individual and situational factors
The aim of the CogBIAS longitudinal study (CogBIAS-L-S) is to encourage the integration of these two fields of research in order to investigate the cognitive and genetic factors that are involved in the development of emotional vulnerability and resilience in a healthy adolescent sample
Until recently almost all research on action-tendencies has been conducted in adult samples, will this study extend the research to adolescent populations, it will offer the first integration of research between cognitive biases (CBs) in mood-related outcomes with CBs in action-tendencies towards reward, which should facilitate the integration of these two fields
Summary
Optimal psychological development is dependent upon a complex interplay between individual and situational factors. Investigating the development of these factors in adolescence will help to improve understanding of emotional vulnerability and resilience. The CogBIAS longitudinal study (CogBIAS-L-S) aims to combine cognitive and genetic approaches to investigate risk and protective factors associated with the development of mood and impulsivity-related outcomes in an adolescent sample. The aim of the CogBIAS longitudinal study (CogBIAS-L-S) is to encourage the integration of these two fields of research in order to investigate the cognitive and genetic factors that are involved in the development of emotional vulnerability and resilience in a healthy adolescent sample. CogBIAS-L-S aims to provide a broader picture by assessing a multitude of CBs in a large sample of healthy adolescents at three narrow time points, in order to investigate the developmental trajectory of a range of CBs on psychopathological, as well as resilient outcomes during normal development
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