An Initial examination of fear of negative and positive evaluation in youth.

Fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and fear of positive evaluation (FPE) are both core features of social anxiety. The majority of research with these constructs has been done with older adolescents and adults, with only one previous study examining FNE and FPE in childhood. However, this previous work relied exclusively on parent-report of youth FNE and FPE.

Evaluating the item-level factor structure of anhedonia.

Background: Anhedonia has long been theorized to be a multidimensional construct, focusing on domains of reward stimuli and temporal relationship to reward. However, little empirical work has directly examined whether there is support for this assertion.

Methods: The study used data from young adults from four independent samples (n = 2098).

Testing Invariance of Measures of Internalizing Symptoms Before and After a Major Life Stressor: The Impact of COVID-19 in an Adolescent and Young Adult Sample.

There are reports of increases in levels of internalizing psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, these studies presume that measurement properties of these constructs remained unchanged from before the pandemic. In this study, we examined longitudinal measurement invariance of assessments of depression, anxiety, and intolerance of uncertainty (IU) in adolescents and young adults from ongoing longitudinal studies.

Responses to affect subtypes differentially associate with anxious and depressive symptom severity.

Responses to affect include cognitive processes (i.e., perseverative vs.

Trajectories of depressive symptoms through adolescence as predictors of cortical thickness in the orbitofrontal cortex: An examination of sex differences.

Previous research has found associations between orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) structure and symptoms of major depression, though specific aspects of this complex relationship remain unclear. The current study examined sex differences in the influence of individual trajectories of depressive symptoms on cortical thickness (CT) in the OFC during late adolescence. Fifty-four participants enrolled in an ongoing longitudinal study completed assessments of depression symptoms at baseline (M = 12.

Approach and avoidance patterns in reward learning across domains: An initial examination of the Social Iowa Gambling Task.

The current study examines learning patterns in response to both monetary and social incentives through both approach and avoidance behaviors using modified versions of the Iowa Gambling Task. Specifically, we investigated learning in response to both positive and negative feedback in a sample of 191 undergraduate students. The social task was a novel paradigm, and social feedback were images of faces displaying positive and negative emotions.

Neural correlates of RDoC reward constructs in adolescents with diverse psychiatric symptoms: A Reward Flanker Task pilot study.

Background: There has been growing interest under the Research Domain Criteria initiative to investigate behavioral constructs and their underlying neural circuitry. Abnormalities in reward processes are salient across psychiatric conditions and may precede future psychopathology in youth. However, the neural circuitry underlying such deficits has not been well defined.