Gregory P. Strauss|Rebecca C. Wilbur|Kimberly R. Warren|Sharon August|James M. Gold
Anticipatory vs. consummatory pleasure: What is the nature of hedonic deficits in schizophrenia?
University of Maryland, Baltimore|University of Maryland, Baltimore|University of Maryland, Baltimore|University of Maryland, Baltimore|University of Maryland, Baltimore
recent research distinguished anticipatory consummatory pleasure current study examined psychometric properties temporal experience pleasure scale teps determine whether reliability validity findings reported previous research replicate additional sample schizophrenia patients participants included 86 individuals schizophrenia 59 demographically matched healthy controls inconsistent previous research patients differed controls reports consummatory tepscon anticipatory tepsant pleasure also failed replicate important correlational findings reported previous research indicating relationships tepsant subscale external validators analyses stability teps subscales conducted subgroup patients n19 indicated excellent stability tepscon icc intraclass correlation coefficient093 somewhat lower stability tepsant subscale icc074 findings suggest additional studies needed using teps well measures determine nature anhedonia individuals schizophrenia