TY - JOUR
T1 - Shame in Response to Affective Expression and Its Relation to Social Anhedonia and Schizotypy Traits
AU - Gerhart, James
AU - Russ, Eric U.
AU - Alonzi, Sarah
AU - Hoerger, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (U54 GM104940), which funds the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center (LACATs).
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Copyright © 2021 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Schizotypy is marked by negative symptoms including blunted affect, social isolation, and social anhedonia. Contemporary personality theory suggests that maladaptive shame regulation may disrupt interpersonal function across personality disorders. We hypothesized that "affect shame"- a conditioned response of shame evoked by openly expressing emotions would co-occur with interpersonal deficits in schizotypy. As hypothesized, affect shame was associated with interpersonal deficits (r = 0.17, p < 0.001), physical anhedonia (r = 0.13, p = 0.001), and social anhedonia (r = 0.17, p = 0.001). The observed findings were upheld in analyses controlling for demographic characteristics, depression symptom severity, and neuroticism and were maintained consistently across sensitivity analyses. Findings suggest that shame related to emotional expression is related to interpersonal deficits in schizotypy and have implications for our understanding of the etiology and treatment of this disorder.
AB - Schizotypy is marked by negative symptoms including blunted affect, social isolation, and social anhedonia. Contemporary personality theory suggests that maladaptive shame regulation may disrupt interpersonal function across personality disorders. We hypothesized that "affect shame"- a conditioned response of shame evoked by openly expressing emotions would co-occur with interpersonal deficits in schizotypy. As hypothesized, affect shame was associated with interpersonal deficits (r = 0.17, p < 0.001), physical anhedonia (r = 0.13, p = 0.001), and social anhedonia (r = 0.17, p = 0.001). The observed findings were upheld in analyses controlling for demographic characteristics, depression symptom severity, and neuroticism and were maintained consistently across sensitivity analyses. Findings suggest that shame related to emotional expression is related to interpersonal deficits in schizotypy and have implications for our understanding of the etiology and treatment of this disorder.
KW - Affect expression
KW - Anhedonia
KW - Emotion regulation
KW - Schizophrenia
KW - Schizotypy
KW - Shame
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U2 - 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001412
DO - 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001412
M3 - Article
C2 - 34982751
AN - SCOPUS:85123175564
VL - 210
SP - 54
EP - 60
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
SN - 0022-3018
IS - 1
ER -