Stressful Life Events and Reward Processing in Adults: Moderation by Depression and Anhedonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exposure to acute stress is associated with reduced reward processing in laboratory studies in animals and humans. However, less clear is the association between reward processing and exposure to naturalistic stressful life events. The goal of the current study was to provide a novel investigation of the relation between past 6-month stressful life events and reward processing, and the extent to which this relation was moderated by depression diagnostic status and state symptoms of anhedonia.

Methods

The current study included a secondary analysis of data from 107 adults (37 current-depressed, 25 past-depressed, 45 never-depressed; 75% women) drawn from two previous community studies. Past 6-month stressful life events were assessed with a rigorous contextual inte

SUBMITTER: Min S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11918537 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature