Attentional control mediates the relationship between social anhedonia and social impairment

Frontiers in Psychology

Laura M. Tully¹ 

关键词: social anhedonia;    attentional control;    social functioning;    psychosis-proneness;    schizotypy;    schizophrenia;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01384

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Social anhedonia (SA), a trait-like disinterest in social contact and diminished capacity to experience pleasure from social interactions, is consistently associated with social impairments in both healthy and clinical populations. However, the mechanisms underlying the relationship between SA and social impairment are poorly understood. Attentional control, selecting and focusing on relevant information and inhibiting irrelevant, may be one such mechanism. We examined individual differences in SA, attentional control, and social impairment in 108 healthy adults. High SA related to low attentional control and high social impairment. Moreover, attentional control mediated the relationship between SA and social impairment, establishing attentional control as one mechanism underlying aberrations in the fundamental human need for social contact. Although both attentional deficits and social impairment have been separately noted in SA, the relationship between SA, attentional control and social impairment in this non-clinical sample reflects a novel contribution.

【 授权许可】

CC BY