Individual differences in hedonic capacity, depressed mood, and affective states predict emotional reactivity.

ABSTRACT: Identifying factors that contribute to inter-individual differences in emotional reactivity is central to understanding the basic mechanisms that give rise to adaptive emotion reactivity and to disruptions that may occur in psychopathology. The current study related emotional reactivity in an unselected young adult sample (N = 101) to individual difference factors relevant to emotional functioning and mood pathology, specifically anhedonia, depressed mood, and current affective state. To assess emotional reactivity, participants rated their emotional responses to 100 pictures from the International Affective Picture System. Increased self-reported anhedonia (i.e. reduced hedonic capacity) predicted blunted emotional reactivity to both positive and negative images, relative to neutral image

SUBMITTER: Saxena A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7252228 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature