Anticipatory Pleasure, but Not Consummatory Pleasure, Is Longitudinally Linked to Depression Symptoms

Poster Session II

Keyword: Mood Disorders

Abstract: Pleasure-depression links in college students were tested across four waves of data. Anticipatory pleasure prospectively predicted anhedonic depression, but not vice versa. Meanwhile, depression prospectively predicted anticipatory pleasure, but not vice versa. Associations between consummatory pleasure and depression were non-significant.

• Quynh Nguyen (Presenting Author)
• Jennifer Wicks (Author)
• Morgan Taylor (Author)
• Alyssa Fassett-Carman (Author)
• Chiara Neilson (Author)
• Elena Peterson (Author)
• Roselinde Kaiser (Author)
• Hannah Snyder (Author)