Childhood trauma and sensitivity to reward and punishment: Implications for depressive and anxiety symptoms

Miu, Andrei C.; Bîlc, Mirela I.; Bunea, Ioana; Szentágotai‐Tătar, Aurora

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.07.015

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“…Because of self-selection bias, we expected that fun-seeking would be greater in our sample than in the population. Exploratory analysis showed that the means of the personality scales (fun-seeking, drive, reward responsiveness, and behavioral inhibition) were similar to the means obtained in other Romanian samples [ 72 , 73 ], as well as those in other, larger samples. Nevertheless, an important limitation comes from the fact that we investigated local residents’ travel behavior based on travel intentions and self-reported traveling.…”

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Predictors of Changes in Travel Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Tourists’ Personalities

Morar

Tiba

Basarin

et al. 2021

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This study investigates travel behavior and psychosocial factors that influence it during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a cross-sectional study, using an online survey, we examined changes in travel behavior and preferences after lifting travel restrictions, and how these changes were influenced by exposure to COVID-19, COVID-19 travel-related risk and severity, personality, fear of travel, coping, and self-efficacy appraisals in the Romanian population. Our results showed that participants traveled less in the pandemic year than the year before—especially group and foreign travel—yet more participants reported individual traveling in their home county during the pandemic period. Distinct types of exposure to COVID-19 risk, as well as cognitive and affective factors, were related to travel behavior and preferences. However, fun-seeking personality was the only major predictor of travel intention, while fear of travel was the only predictor of travel avoidance. Instead, people traveled more cautiously when they perceived more risk of infection at the destination, and had higher levels of fear of travel, but also a high sense of efficacy in controlling the infection and problem-solving capacity. The results suggest that specific information about COVID-19, coping mechanisms, fear of travel, and neuropsychological personality traits may affect travel behavior in the pandemic period.

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Predictors of Changes in Travel Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Tourists’ Personalities

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Tiba

Basarin

et al. 2021

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“…Some research has shown that the association between childhood abuse and depression is most important for women, while other studies have found that men and women who report a history of childhood abuse are equally likely to suffer from severe depression in adulthood [ 124 , 125 ]. (3) Existing research has investigated possible moderating or mediating effects on the association between childhood maltreatment and depressive and anxiety disorders such as emotion dysregulation [ 126 , 127 ], as well as resilience [ 128 , 129 ], personality traits [ 130 , 131 , 132 , 133 ], maternal relationship quality and peer social acceptance [ 134 ], feelings of shame [ 135 ], perceived friendship (social support from family and friends) [ 136 ], rumination [ 137 ], self-compassion and gratitude [ 138 ] and adult negative life events [ 139 ].…”

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A Half Century of Research on Childhood and Adolescent Depression: Science Mapping the Literature, 1970 to 2019

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Bian

Zhu

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In order to gain an in-depth understanding of research about childhood and adolescent depression, this article analyzes the scale, development, and geographic distribution of the literature in the field based on 8491 articles extracted from the Web of Science Core database. Using citation analysis, this article identifies influential journals, scholars, and documents in this field. The study found that in the past 15 years, the number of documents has increased significantly and geographical diversity has also increased. Most of the highly influential literature relates to depression inventories. Using keyword co-occurrence analysis, this article also identified three key research topics focusing on (a) child and adolescent depression symptoms and prevalence, (b) parental depression and child behavioral or emotional problems, and (c) childhood abuse and depression. This study uses ‘science mapping’ as a means to provide a better understanding of research trends about childhood and adolescent depression that have emerged over the past half century, and may serve as reference for future research.

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“…Along with being associated with hypoactive striatal responses to rewards ( 48 ), ACEs have also been associated with hyperactive responses to punishment ( 16 ). This poses a further testable hypothesis, which could explain why our findings with respect to the learning rate were in the opposite direction to our predictions, as the reward feedback used in the current paradigm was positively valenced, with participants making choices to accumulate rewards rather than avoid punishment.…”

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“…Yet, a potential limitation associated with the variant of the BART used by Humphreys and colleagues ( 4 ) is that choosing to explore can lead the participant to lose any unbanked points they have accumulated if they pump beyond the balloon’s limit. This may be problematic as early adversity is associated with a heightened sensitivity toward negative feedback ( 16 ), and therefore, previous research demonstrating reduced exploration following early stress may be confounded by heightened loss aversion in this population ( 17 ). Moreover, while the effects of early adversity on exploration have been investigated in adolescents, it is unknown whether ACEs in humans lead to reduced levels of exploration in adulthood.…”

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Individuals with adverse childhood experiences explore less and underweight reward feedback

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McKay

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2022

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are extreme stressors that lead to negative psychosocial outcomes in adulthood. Nonhuman animals explore less after exposure to early stress. Therefore, in this preregistered study, we hypothesized that reduced exploration following ACEs would also be evident in human adults. Further, we predicted that adults with ACEs, in a foraging task, would adopt a decision-making policy that relies on the most-recent reward feedback, a rational strategy for unstable environments. We analyzed data from 145 adult participants, 47 with four or more ACEs and 98 with fewer than four ACEs. In the foraging task, participants evaluated the trade-off between exploiting a known patch with diminishing rewards and exploring a novel one with a fresh distribution of rewards. Using computational modeling, we quantified the degree to which participants’ decisions weighted recent feedback. As predicted, participants with ACEs explored less. However, contrary to our hypothesis, they underweighted recent feedback. These unexpected findings indicate that early adversity may dampen reward sensitivity. Our results may help to identify cognitive mechanisms that link childhood trauma to the onset of psychopathology.

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Childhood trauma and sensitivity to reward and punishment: Implications for depressive and anxiety symptoms

Cited by 25 publications

References 28 publications

Predictors of Changes in Travel Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Tourists’ Personalities

Predictors of Changes in Travel Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Tourists’ Personalities

A Half Century of Research on Childhood and Adolescent Depression: Science Mapping the Literature, 1970 to 2019

Individuals with adverse childhood experiences explore less and underweight reward feedback

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