Happy or not? An investigative study on well-being and anhedonia in everyday life.

ABSTRACT: Anhedonia, the inability to experience pleasure or interest in activities, is a key symptom across various psychiatric disorders, including depression. It links to poor quality of life, higher suicide risk, and poorer prognosis. While anhedonia is often studied in clinical populations, its prevalence in healthy individuals and its dimensional nature remain underexplored. This study examined the prevalence of anhedonia in 128 German university students, comparing those with and without psychiatric symptoms and modeling psychiatric symptoms as predictor of anhedonia, measured with the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS). Results showed that the clinical group demonstrated relatively low levels of anhedonia (total DARS-26: 85.03 ± 12.88) that did not differ from the healthy group (88.80

SUBMITTER: Merklein SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12425193 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature