SynthesisJournal of psychiatric research2020
A meta-analysis of self-reported anticipatory and consummatory pleasure in the schizophrenia-spectrum.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Transdiagnostic Comparison of Anticipated Hedonic Deficits: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis Across Schizophrenia, Depression, and Their Subclinical Individuals.PsyCh journal · 2026Pooled it
- Do People With Schizophrenia Enjoy Social Activities as Much as Everyone Else? A Meta-analysis of Consummatory Social Pleasure.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Pooled it
- Trait Anhedonia in Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Comparative Meta-analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Pooled it
- From Memories of Past Experiences to Present Motivation? A Meta-analysis on the Association Between Episodic Memory and Negative Symptoms in People With Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Pooled it
- Immediate Psychological Responses to Aerobic and Resistance Exercise in People With Psychotic Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Psychiatric Rehabilitation.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Trial
- Understanding Anticipatory Anhedonia in Schizophrenia and Depression: Linking Reward Representation Maintenance from a Transdiagnostic Perspective.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Interplay Among Reward Processing, Schizotypal Traits, and Psychosocial Stress in a Large Chinese Young Adult Sample: A Cross-Sectional Network Analysis.PsyCh journal · 2026Article
- Motivational deficits and anhedonia in schizophrenia: insights from behavioral activation and behavioral inhibition systems.Annals of general psychiatry · 2026Article
- Unraveling reward processing in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a multilevel examination of the positive valence system.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Diminished anticipatory-consummatory pleasure interplay in high schizotypal traits and subthreshold depression: potential risk for schizophrenia and depression.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Advancing scientific understanding of the drive to socially engage: from broad constructs to transdiagnostic 'building blocks'.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Dysfunctions of Reward Motivation Adaptation in Patients With Schizophrenia.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- Blunted Ventral Striatal Reactivity to Social Reward Is Associated with More Severe Motivation and Pleasure Deficits in Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Psychological side effects of antipsychotic medication after remission from first-episode psychosis: a HAMLETT ecological momentary assessment study.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Subregional amygdala functional connectivity abnormalities and anhedonia impairments in first-episode schizophrenia.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Schizotypal Personality Traits and Temporal Discounting: The Role of the Date/Delay Effect.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- A good life with psychosis: rate of positive outcomes in first-episode psychosis at 10-year follow-up.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
- Blunted ventral striatal reactivity to social reward is associated with more severe motivation and pleasure deficits in psychosis.Research square · 2024Article
- Social Activity in Schizotypy: Measuring Frequency and Enjoyment of Social Events.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- "Goals in Focus"-a targeted CBT approach for motivational negative symptoms of psychosis: study protocol for a randomized-controlled feasibility trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveRecent conceptual frameworks propose anhedonia reflects abnormalities in the temporal dynamics of positive emotion in schizophrenia, characterized by intact consummatory and impaired anticipatory pleasure. A comprehensive meta-analysis can directly test this theory using self-report data.
methodA meta-analysis was performed on studies reporting Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS) data from healthy controls and schizophrenia or schizotypy groups. The TEPS was examined as it contains subscales to measure both consummatory and anticipatory pleasure separately. Statistical heterogeneity and study bias were examined. Meta-regressions evaluated moderators.
results53 studies were retrieved (7,797 participants). Results revealed small effect sizes for comparisons of combined schizophrenia/schizotypy and control groups for both consummatory and anticipatory pleasure. Within-group comparisons of pleasure conditions were nonsignificant. The percentage of male schizophrenia/schizotypy participants significantly moderated anticipatory and consummatory pleasure for the combined sample and schizotypy alone; male participants were found to report reduced pleasure. There was only minor evidence of bias; sensitivity analysis confirmed result robustness. Exploratory outlier removal for schizophrenia within-group pleasure comparisons revealed a statistically significant difference between reported anticipatory and consummatory pleasure, with consummatory pleasure reduced relative to anticipatory (i.e., in the opposite direction of the majority of experimental research findings).
conclusionsThese findings provided only modest support for the temporal dynamics of positive emotion conceptualization because they revealed no evidence for: 1) specific anticipatory pleasure deficits in schizophrenia-spectrum participants compared to controls; 2) significant reductions in anticipatory pleasure relative to consummatory pleasure in schizophrenia-spectrum participants.
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