Emotional Memory Bias Predicts Future Depression and Anxiety: A Cross-Lagged Network Modelling Approach

Emotional information-processing biases are hypothesised to predict future emotional vulnerability. Using cross-lagged network models, we found initial evidence that emotional memory bias predicts future anxiety and depression in adolescence (n = 354), but not vice versa. Symptom trajectories network similarly indicate coherence amongst emotional cognitive bias and mental health trajectories.