The social world of the socially anhedonic: Exploring the daily ecology of asociality

Kwapil, Thomas Richard; Silvia, Paul J.; Myin-Germeys, Inez; Anderson, Amanda J.; Coates, Sarah A.; Brown, Leslie H.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2008.10.008

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“…It is also possible (and perhaps likely) that patients have a more complicated relationship with the individuals they interact with, resulting in a less linear relationship between social contact and enjoyment. This needs further replication, but is in line with research finding that people with schizophrenia, and individuals high in social anhedonia may find social interactions as less pleasant than healthy individuals (Gard & Kring, 2009; Kwapil et al, 2009). …”

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Do people with schizophrenia have difficulty anticipating pleasure, engaging in effortful behavior, or both?

Gard¹,

Sanchez²,

Cooper³

et al. 2014

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Motivation deficits are common in schizophrenia, but little is known about underlying mechanisms, or the specific goals that people with schizophrenia set in daily life. Using neurobiological heuristics of pleasure anticipation and effort assessment, we examined the quality of activities and goals of 47 people with and 41 people without schizophrenia, utilizing Ecological Momentary Assessment. Participants were provided cell phones and called four times a day for seven days, and were asked about their current activities and anticipation of upcoming goals. Activities and goals were later coded by independent raters on pleasure and effort. In line with recent laboratory findings on effort computation deficits in schizophrenia, relative to healthy participants, people with schizophrenia reported engaging in less effortful activities and setting less effortful goals, which were related to patient functioning. In addition, patients showed some inaccuracy in estimating how difficult an effortful goal would be, which in turn was associated with lower neurocognition. In contrast to previous research, people with schizophrenia engaged in activities and set goals that were more pleasure-based, and anticipated goals as being more pleasurable than controls. Thus, this study provided evidence for difficulty with effortful behavior and not anticipation of pleasure. These findings may have psychosocial treatment implications, focusing on effort assessment/effort expenditure. For example, in order to help people with schizophrenia engage in more meaningful goal pursuits, treatment providers may leverage low-effort pleasurable goals by helping patients to break down larger, more complex goals into smaller, lower-effort steps that are associated with specific pleasurable rewards.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Do people with schizophrenia have difficulty anticipating pleasure, engaging in effortful behavior, or both?

Gard¹,

Sanchez²,

Cooper³

et al. 2014

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

136

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“…Social reward. Social reward was defined as the change in positive affect in response to change of social context, that is, changing from being alone to being in company of others (33). As an additional conceptualization of social reward, we investigated the association between positive affect and i) social satisfaction and ii) desired social change, and whether these associations were different for the two groups.…”

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Positive emotions from social company in women with persisting subclinical psychosis: lessons from daily life

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Wigman

et al. 2013

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…Note that because of branching questions participants completed 28 or 32 items at each ESM assessment (depending on whether they were alone or not). The ESM questionnaire was developed as part of a larger study on ecological momentary assessment of psychopathology, and it was used in Brown et al’s (2011) study of depression and Kwapil et al’s (2009) study of social anhedonia in daily life. The majority of the items were answered on a 7-point scale from 1 (not at all) to 7 (very much).…”

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Being with others and feeling happy: Emotional expressivity in everyday life

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Brown

Royal

et al. 2012

Personality and Individual Differences

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An experience sampling study assessed the relation between psychological functioning in daily life and emotional expressivity as measured by the emotional expressivity scale (EES). Four hundred and twenty-nine participants carried personal digital assistants that signaled them 8 times daily to complete questionnaires assessing affect, activities, and social contact. As predicted, participants high in emotional expressivity were more likely to have elevated state positive affect, but not negative affect. These participants were also less likely to be alone and more likely to demonstrate better social functioning when with others. Cross-level interactions indicated that emotional expressivity moderated the association of social context and functioning in the moment. The findings support the validity of the EES as a measure of emotional expressivity and demonstrate the utility of experience sampling for describing personality traits in daily life.

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The social world of the socially anhedonic: Exploring the daily ecology of asociality

Cited by 75 publications

References 11 publications

Do people with schizophrenia have difficulty anticipating pleasure, engaging in effortful behavior, or both?

Do people with schizophrenia have difficulty anticipating pleasure, engaging in effortful behavior, or both?

Positive emotions from social company in women with persisting subclinical psychosis: lessons from daily life

Being with others and feeling happy: Emotional expressivity in everyday life

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