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C'mon get happy: reduced magnitude and duration of response during a positive-affect induction in depression.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Depression involves decreased positive affect. Whether this is due to a failure to achieve or maintain positive emotion in response to discrete stimuli is unclear. Understanding the nature of decreased positive affect could help to address how to intervene in the phenomenon, for example, how to structure interventions using positive and rewarding stimuli in depression. Thus, we examined the time course of affect following exposure to positive stimuli in depressed and healthy individuals. METHODS:Seventy-one adults with major depressive disorder and thirty-four never-depressed controls read a self-generated highly positive script and continuously rated their affect for 7 min. RESULTS:Both groups quickly achieved increased positive affect, however, compared to controls, depressed participants did not achieve the same level of positive affect, did not maintain their positive affect, spent less time rating their affect as happy, and demonstrated larger drops in mood. CONCLUSIONS:These data indicate that depressed and nondepressed individuals can generate positive reactions to happy scripts, but depressed individuals cannot achieve or sustain equivalent levels of positive affect. Interventions for depression might fruitfully focus on increasing depressed individuals' ability to maintain initial engagement with positive stimuli over a sustained period of time.

SUBMITTER: Horner MS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422486 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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C'mon get happy: reduced magnitude and duration of response during a positive-affect induction in depression.

Horner Michelle S MS Siegle Greg J GJ Schwartz Robert M RM Price Rebecca B RB Haggerty Agnes E AE Collier Amanda A Friedman Edward S ES

Depression and anxiety 20140318 11

<h4>Background</h4>Depression involves decreased positive affect. Whether this is due to a failure to achieve or maintain positive emotion in response to discrete stimuli is unclear. Understanding the nature of decreased positive affect could help to address how to intervene in the phenomenon, for example, how to structure interventions using positive and rewarding stimuli in depression. Thus, we examined the time course of affect following exposure to positive stimuli in depressed and healthy i ...[more]

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C'mon get happy: reduced magnitude and duration of response during a positive-affect induction in depression.

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C'mon get happy: reduced magnitude and duration of response during a positive-affect induction in depression.

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