The thrill of victory: Savoring positive affect, psychophysiological reward processing, and symptoms of depression.

ABSTRACT: Depression is characterized by a pattern of maladaptive emotion regulation. Recently, researchers have begun to focus on associations between depression and two positive affect regulation strategies: savoring and dampening. Savoring, or upregulation of positive affect, is positively associated with well-being and negatively associated with depression, whereas dampening, or downregulation of positive affect, is positively associated with depression, anhedonia, and negative affect. To date, no research has examined whether savoring or dampening can affect neurophysiological reactivity to reward, which previous research has shown is associated with symptoms of depression. Here, we examined associations between psychophysiological reward processing-primarily captured by the Reward Positivity (

SUBMITTER: Irvin KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8343962 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature