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A note on the pathology of anhedonia
Author(s) -
Watson Charles G.,
Jacobs Lyle,
Kucala Teresa
Publication year - 1979
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(197910)35:4<740::aid-jclp2270350409>3.0.co;2-g
Subject(s) - anhedonia , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , developmental psychology
Tested the hypotheses that anhedonia afflicts only a minority of schizophrenics and is bimodally distributed among them by comparing the Anhedonia scale distributions of schizophrenic and psychiatric control samples ( N = 90). Only 45% of the schizophrenics produced scores higher than those characteristic of the controls. While the schizophrenics' distribution appeared to be bimodal, its irregularity precluded a definitive assessment of the bimodality hypothesis. The correlation between age and Anhedonia was positive for anhedonics but not for non‐anhedonic schizophrenics or controls; these findings suggest that anhedonia is a mildly progressive disorder among those schizophrenics who experience it.