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Evidence for a dual‐factor concept of psychopathological emotional deficit: Anhedonia and sensation‐seeking
Author(s) -
Watson Charles G.,
Jacobs Lyle
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197704)33:2<385::aid-jclp2270330212>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - anhedonia , psychology , sensation seeking , psychopathology , sensation , dual (grammatical number) , factor (programming language) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , personality , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , art , literature , computer science , programming language
Abstract Correlations between measures of anhedonia and sensation‐seeking were calculated in two psychiatric samples. The correlations indicated that, despite their conceptual similarity, the two represent different motivational deficits. Their correlates appeared to indicate that sensation‐seeking represents neurotic inhibition, while anhedonia reflects a separate motivational deficit apparently characteristic of process schizophrenics.