ArticleJournal of personality assessment
Measuring Anhedonia in Adolescents: A Psychometric Analysis.
Article in Journal of personality assessment. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
45 citing papers in PubMed, 89 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of topiramate on the association between affect, cannabis craving, and cannabis use in the daily life of youth during a randomized clinical trial.Psychopharmacology · 2021Trial
- Loss of pleasure (Anhedonia): A sex-dependent, cross-species consequence of unpredictable signals to the perinatal brain.Neurobiology of stress · 2026Article
- A protocol for the Teen Bugs study: An integrative, multi-omics approach to understanding the role of the gut microbiome and mesocorticolimbic system in adolescent mental health following early adverse caregiving.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Blunted Reward Responsiveness During Social Feedback: Associations with Peer Victimization and Anhedonia in Socially Anxious Adolescents.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Blunted anticipation, but not consummation, of food rewards in depression.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS) Turkish Version: Examination of Psychometric Properties in Depressed and Ultra-High Risk/Psychotic Adolescents.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Psychotic-like experiences in adolescents enriched for high-risk for developing severe mental illness: change over two-years and associations with neural reward processing and affective symptoms.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Altered Habenula Resting-State Functional Connectivity and Spatial Associations with Neurotransmitter Receptor Distribution of Major Depressive Disorder with and without Anhedonia.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2026Article
- Temporal Predictions from Anhedonia To Anxiety in Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- A Systematic Review: Investigating Biomarkers of Anhedonia and Amotivation in Depression and Cannabis Use.JAACAP open · 2025Review
- Understanding anhedonia in major depressive disorder in Japan: epidemiology and unmet needs from patients' and physicians' perspectives.BMC psychiatry · 2025Observational
- Weighing the predictive role of neural factors for adolescent anhedonia in the presence of demographic and clinical factors.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Anhedonia Scale for Adolescents and Identification of the Subpopulation with Prominent Anhedonia.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025Article
- Observational
- Dynamic processes in behavioral activation therapy for anhedonic adolescents: Modeling common and patient-specific relations.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2024Article
- Neural sensitivity following stress predicts anhedonia symptoms: a 2-year multi-wave, longitudinal study.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Inattentive responding can induce spurious associations between task behaviour and symptom measures.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- Reward-related predictors of symptom change in behavioral activation therapy for anhedonic adolescents: a multimodal approach.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Anhedonia, Apathy, Pleasure, and Effort-Based Decision-Making in Adult and Adolescent Cannabis Users and Controls.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Is Future Mental Imagery Associated with Reduced Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Negative Affect and Anhedonic Symptoms in Young People?Cognitive therapy and research · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Anhedonia-the reduced capacity to experience pleasure-is a trait implicated in mental and physical health. Yet, psychometric data on anhedonia measures in adolescents are absent. We conducted an in-depth psychometric analysis of the Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS; Snaith et al., 1995 )-a self-report measure of anticipated pleasure response to 14 pleasant experiences-in adolescents. Adolescents (N = 585, M age = 14.5) completed the SHAPS and other paper-and-pencil surveys. Item response theory models were used to evaluate the psychometric performance of each SHAPS item. Correlations of the SHAPS with other personality and psychopathology measures were calculated to evaluate construct validity. Results showed that (a) certain items (e.g., reported pleasure from basic experiences like "seeing smiling faces" or "smelling flowers") provided more information about latent anhedonia than others; and (b) SHAPS scales exhibited construct-consistent convergent and discriminant validity (i.e., stronger correlations with low positive affect constructs, weaker correlations with negative affect). Reporting diminished pleasure from basic pleasant experiences accurately indicates adolescent anhedonia, which is important for future scale development and understanding the phenomenology of anhedonia in teens. These data support using the SHAPS for assessing anhedonia in epidemiological research and school-based universal prevention programming in general adolescent populations.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.