ArticlePsychological medicine2021
Elucidating negative symptoms in the daily life of individuals in the early stages of psychosis.
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- Design decisions and data completeness for experience sampling methods used in psychosis: systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
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- Shedding light on the dynamic interplay of positive and negative symptoms of psychosis with Behavioral Tractography.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Psychological side effects of antipsychotic medication after remission from first-episode psychosis: a HAMLETT ecological momentary assessment study.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Digital phenotyping evidence for the reduced positivity offset as a mechanism underlying anhedonia among individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
- Hearing vocals to recognize schizophrenia: speech discriminant analysis with fusion of emotions and features based on deep learning.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Social anhedonia in the daily lives of people with schizophrenia: Examination of anticipated and consummatory pleasure.Schizophrenia research · 2024Article
- Do loneliness and social exclusion breed paranoia? An experience sampling investigation across the psychosis continuum.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2023Article
- Momentary Manifestations of Negative Symptoms as Predictors of Clinical Outcomes in People at High Risk for Psychosis: Experience Sampling Study.JMIR mental health · 2021Article
- A Compassion-Focused Ecological Momentary Intervention for Enhancing Resilience in Help-Seeking Youth: Uncontrolled Pilot Study.JMIR mental health · 2021Article
- Stress reactivity as a putative mechanism linking childhood trauma with clinical outcomes in individuals at ultra-high-risk for psychosis: Findings from the EU-GEI High Risk Study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundIt remains poorly understood how negative symptoms are experienced in the daily lives of individuals in the early stages of psychosis. We aimed to investigate whether altered affective experience, anhedonia, social anhedonia, and asociality were more pronounced in individuals with an at-risk mental state for psychosis (ARMS) and individuals with first-episode psychosis (FEP) than in controls.
methodsWe used the experience sampling methodology (ESM) to assess negative symptoms, as they occurred in the daily life of 51 individuals with FEP and 46 ARMS, compared with 53 controls.
resultsMultilevel linear regression analyses showed no overall evidence for a blunting of affective experience. There was some evidence for anhedonia in FEP but not in ARMS, as shown by a smaller increase of positive affect (BΔat-risk v. FEP = 0.08, p = 0.006) as the pleasantness of activities increased. Against our expectations, no evidence was found for greater social anhedonia in any group. FEP were more often alone (57%) than ARMS (38%) and controls (35%) but appraisals of the social situation did not point to asociality.
conclusionsOverall, altered affective experience, anhedonia, social anhedonia and asociality seem to play less of a role in the daily life of individuals in the early stages of psychosis than previously assumed. With the experience of affect and pleasure in daily life being largely intact, changing social situations and appraisals thereof should be further investigated to prevent development or deterioration of negative symptoms.
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