A comparison of psychometric and convergent validity for social anhedonia and social closeness.

Olino, Thomas M.; Horton, Leslie E.; Versella, Mark V.

doi:10.1037/pas0000291

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“…The pattern of findings for personality/temperament were generally consistent with previous research as social anhedonia had stronger and more consistent associations with positive temperament as opposed to negative temperament or disinhibition (e.g., Gooding et al, 2017; Olino et al, 2016), which has been found in the adult literature. Indeed, the relationships between social anhedonia and negative temperament or disinhibition were greatly reduced when accounting for shared variance with positive temperament.…”

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“…A recent study of narrower facets of personality found that social anhedonia is negatively related to prosocial orientation, orderliness, goal striving, dependability, sociability, and activity (Gooding et al, 2017). Of various narrow facets, social anhedonia is most comparable to low social closeness (i.e., the propensity to engage with others, value and enjoy relationships, and be warm and affectionate) and both traits have a similar pattern of correlations within the personality hierarchy (Olino et al, 2016).…”

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“…L. Blanchard, Horan, & Brown, 2001; Gooding, Tallent, & Matts, 2005, 2007; Kwapil, 1998). In addition, studies have reported that social anhedonia is elevated in patients with depression (Atherton, Nevels, & Moore, 2015; Pelizza & Ferrari, 2009) and correlated with depression symptoms in nonclinical samples (Olino et al, 2016). Moreover, social anhedonia has been associated with autism spectrum disorders (Berthoz, Lalanne, Crane, & Hill, 2013; Gadow & Garman, 2018) and eating disorders (Tchanturia et al, 2012).…”

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Examining Personality, Interpersonal, and Symptom Correlates of Social Anhedonia in Early Adolescent Males and Females

Goldstein

Mumper

Behari

et al. 2020

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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Social anhedonia, a tendency toward experiencing social stimuli as less positive or pleasurable, is associated with maladaptive personality traits, poor interpersonal functioning, and psychopathology, and is typically elevated in males compared with females. However, the correlates of social anhedonia in youth have not been well defined. In this study, 275 young adolescents from a community sample completed measures of social anhedonia, personality, interpersonal functioning, and symptoms; mothers also completed personality and symptom measures. Social anhedonia was associated with low positive emotionality and, to a lesser extent, high disinhibition and negative emotionality. Social anhedonia was also correlated with several markers of poor interpersonal functioning and a wide range of internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Interactions between sex variables indicated that associations were particularly strong in males. Overall, findings suggest that social anhedonia is an important construct to explore in early adolescence, with meaningful associations with psychosocial functioning, especially among males.

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Examining Personality, Interpersonal, and Symptom Correlates of Social Anhedonia in Early Adolescent Males and Females

Goldstein

Mumper

Behari

et al. 2020

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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“…Similarly, social anhedonia is not simply an extreme form of introversion, which is characterized by low positive emotion and a preference for solitude (10). Rather, it seems comparable to (low) social closeness captured in the personality literature (11). In short, social anhedonia is not merely a reflection of diminished social interest, but at its core entails a reduced positive appraisal of all aspects of interpersonal relationships.…”

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A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Social Anhedonia

2019

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Humans are highly social beings, yet people with social anhedonia experience reduced interest in or reward from social situations. Social anhedonia is a key facet of schizotypal personality, an important symptom of schizophrenia, and increasingly recognized as an important feature in a range of other psychological disorders. However, to date, there has been little examination of the similarities and differences in social anhedonia across diagnostic borders. Here, our goal was to conduct a selective review of social anhedonia in different psychological and life course contexts, including the psychosis continuum, depressive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and autism spectrum disorders, along with developmental and neurobiological factors. Current evidence suggests that the nature and expression of social anhedonia vary across psychological disorders with some groups showing deficient learning about, enjoyment from, and anticipation of the pleasurable aspects of social interactions, while for others, some of these components appear to remain intact. However, study designs and methodologies are diverse, the roles of developmental and neurobiological factors are not routinely considered, and direct comparisons between diagnostic groups are rare—which prevents a more nuanced understanding of the underlying mechanisms involved. Future studies, parsing the wanting, liking, and learning components of social reward, will help to fill gaps in the current knowledge base. Consistent across disorders is diminished pleasure from social situations, subsequent withdrawal, and poorer social functioning in those who express social anhedonia. Nonetheless, feelings of loneliness often remain, which suggests the need for social connection is not entirely absent. Adolescence is a particularly important period of social and neural development and may provide a valuable window on the developmental origins of social anhedonia. Adaptive social functioning is key to recovery from mental health disorders; therefore, understanding the intricacies of social anhedonia will help to inform treatment and prevention strategies for a range of diagnostic categories.

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“…In addition, these two constructs are not entirely separable, as one can certainly engage in pleasurable physical activities in a social setting (such as eating dinner with friends). This notion is supported by research showing strong correlations between measurements of social and physical anhedonia 51,52. Such aspects of anhedonia have been examined extensively in relation to schizophrenia 1.…”

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<p>Conceptualizing anhedonias and implications for depression treatments</p>

Winer¹,

Jordan²,

Collins³

2019

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Anhedonia has been implicated as a core symptom of depression and schizophrenia, and studying anhedonia has yielded a wide array of important findings aiding the understanding and identification of psychological disorders. However, anhedonia is a complex and multifaceted construct; indeed, the term anhedonia has been defined in psychological and psychiatric research as many different concepts, a number of which are theoretically and methodologically independent of one another. In this review alone, we discuss research that separates social aspects of anhedonia from the physical contexts of anhedonia, with the former emphasizing interpersonal relationships as important to anhedonic symptoms, and the latter emphasizing biological and brain-related impairment as potential causes of chronic anhedonia states. We highlight research that distinguishes between interest in (wanting) or experience of (liking) potential pleasure as definitions of anhedonia and also disambiguate methodologically and theoretically distinct ways of assessing 1) trait-level dispositional tendencies, 2) state-level cross-sectional assessments, and 3) symptom-based recent changes from baseline, all of which have been used to indicate anhedonia. Lastly, we describe cutting-edge translations of basic anhedonia research into treatment and discuss how different conceptualizations of anhedonia, guided by recent theoretical and methodological advances, have begun to usher in a science of anhedonia that is consistent with increasingly personalized assessment and treatment. We conclude with a note for future research, emphasizing that continued application of theoretically based operationalizations of anhedonia and sound design are paramount to continue the recent progress toward meaningful and specific use of the anhedonia construct in clinical research.

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A comparison of psychometric and convergent validity for social anhedonia and social closeness.

Cited by 9 publications

References 50 publications

Examining Personality, Interpersonal, and Symptom Correlates of Social Anhedonia in Early Adolescent Males and Females

Examining Personality, Interpersonal, and Symptom Correlates of Social Anhedonia in Early Adolescent Males and Females

A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Social Anhedonia

<p>Conceptualizing anhedonias and implications for depression treatments</p>

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