ArticleJournal of affective disorders2022
Evaluating the item-level factor structure of anhedonia.
Article in Journal of affective disorders, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Reward Motivation Adaptation Deficits Are Specific to Co-Occurring Subclinical Depression and Anhedonia.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Which aspects of anhedonia predict response to pharmacotherapy in major depressive disorder?Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Development of Self-Reported Reward Responsiveness and Inhibitory Control and the Role of Clinical and Neural Predictors.Journal of personality · 2025Article
- Anhedonia modulates benzodiazepine and opioid demand among persons in treatment for opioid use disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Validation of a novel method of ultraviolet-induced cutaneous inflammation and its associations with anhedonia.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Social affective forecasting and social anhedonia in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a daily diary study.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAnhedonia has long been theorized to be a multidimensional construct, focusing on domains of reward stimuli and temporal relationship to reward. However, little empirical work has directly examined whether there is support for this assertion.
methodsThe study used data from young adults from four independent samples (n = 2098). Participants completed multiple measures of anhedonia.
resultsWe used rigorous conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses on items from six commonly used anhedonia measures to examine dimensions underlying anhedonia. Results suggested a four-factor solution with factors reflecting social reward, social disinterest, status/achievement, and physical/natural reward. The identified factors reflected broad content domains of pleasure, but not specific reward processes. The four factors were modestly associated with one another, suggesting a weak common underlying anhedonia trait that manifests across multiple dimensions. Factor scores were associated with personality measures, reward-related indices, and depression symptoms, supporting the validity of the factors. LIMITATIONS: Participants were all young adults and we assessed anhedonia only at the level of self-report.
conclusionAnhedonia is a multidimensional construct. However, the dimensions of anhedonia only distinguish domains of, but not temporal processes of anhedonia. Future work should continue to refine the structures underlying the construct of anhedonia through iterative theory- and data-driven research and examine associations between anhedonia and clinical outcomes.
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