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Negative Affect Interference and Fear of Happiness Are Independently Associated with Depressive Symptoms by D. Gage Jordan; Amanda C. Collins; Matthew G. Dunaway; Jenna Kilgore; E. Samuel Winer is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.

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Objectives: Reward devaluation theory (RDT) posits that some depressed individuals avoid positivity due to its previous association with negative outcomes. Behavioral indicators of avoidance of reward support RDT, but selfreport indicators have yet to be examined discriminantly. Two candidate self-report measures were examined in relation to depression: negative affect interference (NAI), or the experience of negative affect in response to positivity, and fear of happiness, a fear of prospective happiness. Method: Participants completed measures assessing NAI, fear of happiness scale, and depression online via Amazon's Mechanical Turk at three time points (N = 375). Multilevel modeling examined the relationship between NAI, fear of happiness, and depressive symptoms longitudinally. Results: NAI and fear of happiness were both positively associated with depressive symptoms. They both uniquely predicted depressive symptoms when included within the same model. Conclusions: These findings suggest that different conceptualizations of positivity avoidance are uniquely associated with depressive symptoms.

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Author

D. Gage Jordan; Amanda C. Collins; Matthew G. Dunaway; Jenna Kilgore; E. Samuel Winer

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0021-9762)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)