Sequeira Stefanie L, Griffith Julianne M, Stanley Seah T H, James Kiera M, Ladouceur Cecile D, Silk Jennifer S
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 485 McCormick Rd, Rm 226K, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2025 Mar;53(3):381-391. doi: 10.1007/s10802-024-01276-9. Epub 2024 Dec 12.
Positive peer interactions are critical for adolescent development and well-being. Showing little interest in interacting socially with peers and/or extracting little reward from positive peer interactions can be markers of social anhedonia, which impacts many youths, especially girls, with social anxiety and depressive disorders. Reduced interest or reward in peer interactions may contribute to social anxiety and depression in girls through effects on positive affect (PA), though associations between social anhedonia and momentary PA have yet to be tested. The present study used ecological momentary assessment to test such associations between real-world anticipatory social reward (i.e., interest in upcoming peer events), consummatory social reward (i.e., reward extracted from positive peer interactions), and momentary PA in a sample of 129 girls (aged 11-13 years) who were oversampled for high shy/fearful temperament, a risk factor for future social anxiety and depression. Girls reported higher PA following a more socially rewarding peer interaction, and higher PA on days they reported higher anticipatory social reward. Exploratory analyses showed that these associations were specific to PA; neither anticipatory nor consummatory social reward was associated with changes in negative affect. Findings may inform the development of clinical interventions that target social anhedonia to modify PA in youth with affective disorders.
积极的同伴互动对青少年的发展和幸福至关重要。对与同伴进行社交互动表现出很少兴趣和/或从积极的同伴互动中获得很少回报可能是社交快感缺乏的标志，这影响着许多年轻人，尤其是患有社交焦虑和抑郁症的女孩。同伴互动中兴趣或回报的减少可能通过对积极情绪（PA）的影响导致女孩出现社交焦虑和抑郁，尽管社交快感缺乏与瞬间PA之间的关联尚未得到检验。本研究采用生态瞬时评估法，在129名女孩（年龄在11至13岁之间）的样本中测试现实世界中预期社交奖励（即对即将到来的同伴活动的兴趣）、 consummatory社交奖励（即从积极的同伴互动中获得的奖励）与瞬间PA之间的这种关联，这些女孩因高害羞/恐惧气质被过度抽样，而高害羞/恐惧气质是未来社交焦虑和抑郁的一个风险因素。女孩在经历更具社交奖励性的同伴互动后报告了更高的PA，并且在她们报告更高预期社交奖励的日子里PA也更高。探索性分析表明，这些关联特定于PA；预期社交奖励和consummatory社交奖励均与消极情绪的变化无关。研究结果可能为针对社交快感缺乏以改善患有情感障碍青少年的PA的临床干预措施的开发提供信息。
