“…We aimed to look at global negative symptoms and not negative symptom factors (e.g., experiential and expressive negative symptoms (Llerena et al, 2018)) based on the conceptual issues mentioned above (e.g., some individual negative symptom items conflate different symptoms) and differing empirical evidence supporting the presence of and included negative symptom domains (e.g., anhedonia) in experiential and expressive negative symptom factors across negative symptom measures, particularly between first-generation and second-generation negative symptom measures (Ahmed et al, in press;Blanchard and Cohen, 2006;Liemburg et al, 2013). For the motivation assessments, we also did not include clinician-rated motivation scales for analytic purposes (e.g., in order to avoid shared method variance that would likely conflate the strength of the associations found) and feasibility reasons (e.g., clinician-rated motivation is largely assessed via subscales of negative symptom measures); 3) had a motivation measure that aligned with intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, or amotivation; choosing measures that align with these domains helps to decrease the difficulties operationalizing motivation, lessens construct validity concerns, and is consistent with the widely used and theoretically driven SDT-based conceptualizations of motivation in schizophrenia research; 4) the self-report and clinician-rated assessments used aligned with reviews of motivation and negative symptoms by Kremen et al (2016) and Lincoln et al (2017), and the performance-based tasks used were consistent with those described in the review from Markou et al (2013). We chose these reviews because they detail the most widely used and validated motivation and negative symptom measures, which is important for reducing content validity issues; 5) used these measures with a schizophrenia-spectrum sample; and 6) contained a univariate association among motivation and overall negative symptoms; if these variables were assessed with eligible measures, but the univariate association was not reported, we emailed the study authors.…”