Evidence for a dual-factor concept of psychopathological emotional deficit: anhedonia and sensation-seeking.
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. Ther correlates appeared to indicate that sensation-seeking represents neurotic inhibition, while anhedonia reflects a separate motivational deficit apparently characteristic of process schizophrenics.
D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology