Associations of negative affective biases and depressive symptoms in a community-based sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Major depressive disorder (MDD) was previously associated with negative affective biases. Evidence from larger population-based studies, however, is lacking, including whether biases normalise with remission. We investigated associations between affective bias measures and depressive symptom severity across a large community-based sample, followed by examining differences between remitted individuals and controls.

Methods

Participants from Generation Scotland (N = 1109) completed the: (i) Bristol Emotion Recognition Task (BERT), (ii) Face Affective Go/No-go (FAGN), and (iii) Cambridge Gambling Task (CGT). Individuals were classified as MDD-current (n = 43), MDD-remitted (n = 282), or controls (n = 784). Analyses included using affective

SUBMITTER: de Nooij L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10482721 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature