Spanish adaptation of the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS)

Arrua-Duarte, Elsa; Migoya-Borja, Marta; Barrigón, María Luisa; Barahona, Igor; Gómez, David; Courtet, Philippe; Aroca, Fuensanta; Rizvi, Sakina J.; Kennedy, Sidney H.; Quilty, Lena C.; Baca‐García, Enrique

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2018.11.040

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“…Cronbach's α suggested good reliability for the DARS total scale and acceptable to good reliability for its subscales. Our reliability results were slightly lower than the internal consistency reported by Rizvi et al (2015) and Arrua-Duarte et al (2019).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Of note, the factor structure of the 17-item DARS only allows to differentiate between different domains, not between the different reward components. The failure to differentiate between the anhedonic components interest, motivation, effort and consummatory pleasure is in line with the results of the initial development (Rizvi et al, 2015) and the Spanish validation study of the DARS (Arrua-Duarte et al, 2019). A recent study on the newly developed Positive Valence Systems Scale (PVSS; Khazanov et al, 2020), comprising six constructs of the Research Domain Criteria's Positive Valence Systems domain (e.g., reward anticipation, reward valuation, reward satiation) and seven reward types (e.g., food, hobbies, goals), similarly only found factors reflecting the reward types, not the constructs.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…In addition, the DARS has shown predictive value above the SHAPS regarding reward functioning and differentiation of treatment-resistant MDD subgroups (Rizvi et al, 2015). A Spanish validation study corroborated the four-factor structure in a diverse clinical sample (Arrua-Duarte et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 78%

“…Principal component analysis revealed four components distinguishing between the four domains pastimes/hobbies, food/drink, social activities and sensory experiences. Hence, domain-specific subscales have been proposed and high internal consistency has been reported for all scales (Rizvi et al, 2015 ; Arrua-Duarte et al, 2019 ). So far, the DARS has demonstrated adequate convergent and divergent validity in community and clinical samples regarding the SHAPS, measures of behavioral inhibition and activation and depression severity (Rizvi et al, 2015 ; Arrua-Duarte et al, 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hence, domain-specific subscales have been proposed and high internal consistency has been reported for all scales (Rizvi et al, 2015 ; Arrua-Duarte et al, 2019 ). So far, the DARS has demonstrated adequate convergent and divergent validity in community and clinical samples regarding the SHAPS, measures of behavioral inhibition and activation and depression severity (Rizvi et al, 2015 ; Arrua-Duarte et al, 2019 ). Sullivan-Toole et al ( 2019 ) found correlations between the DARS and reward-related and effort-related parameter estimates in a novel effort-based decision-making task.…”

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State Anhedonia in Young Healthy Adults: Psychometric Properties of the German Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS) and Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Healthy reward processing is a complex interplay of several components. Recent self-report measures of anhedonia, the decrease or loss of hedonic capacity, take this complexity into account. The Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS) measures interest, motivation, effort and consummatory pleasure across four domains: hobbies, food/drink, social activities and sensory experiences. In the present cross-sectional survey study, we validated the German version of the DARS in a sample of 557 young healthy adults. Factor structure as well as convergent and divergent validity were assessed. As a secondary aim, we examined the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on state anhedonia and depression severity. Our results suggest good convergent and divergent validity and high internal consistency of the German DARS. The original differentiation of four factors mapping onto the four domains was confirmed and measurement invariance before and during the COVID-19 pandemic was established. We conclude that the DARS is a valid instrument to comprehensively assess state anhedonia in healthy German samples. Future studies should further assess the utility of the German DARS in clinical contexts. In line with many previous studies, participants during the pandemic reported significantly higher levels of depressive symptoms compared to participants in the months before. We found no indication that the COVID-19 pandemic affected state hedonic capacity.

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State Anhedonia in Young Healthy Adults: Psychometric Properties of the German Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS) and Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Psychometric properties of the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale in Chinese typical, subthreshold, and clinically depressed adolescents

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Zhu

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The Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale measures state anhedonia in multiple domains, such as hobbies, food and drink, social activities, and sensory experience, and it has good reliability and validity in adult samples. However, no study has examined the psychometrical properties of this scale in adolescents. The present study examined its reliability and validity in adolescents with and without depression. In Study 1, 988 high‐school students completed the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale; 915 completed the second‐round survey 3 months later. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to determine the factor structure. Additionally, internal consistency and test–retest reliability, and concurrent, convergent, and divergent validity were assessed in typical adolescents. In Study 2, the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale was administrated to 108 patients with major depressive disorder, 108 adolescents with subthreshold depression, and 108 healthy controls. Factor structure and convergent validity were assessed in the clinical and subclinical groups. Finally, a one‐way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied to examine the effect of depression severity on the scale scores. The results of Study 1 indicated that a four‐factor model (i.e., hobbies, food and drink, social activities, and sensory experience) best fit the data. Meanwhile, the scale also yielded good concurrent, convergent, and divergent validity, as well as high internal consistency and test–retest reliability, in typical adolescents. In Study 2, goodness‐of‐fit statistics also suggested a good fit for the four‐factor model in the two depressed groups. The one‐way ANOVA revealed significant group differences in the total and factor scores, whereby the major depressive disorder group had lower scores than the subthreshold depression group, whose scores were lower than the healthy controls, indicating excellent eligibility of the scale in depressed adolescents. The Chinese version of the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale is a reliable and valid instrument to comprehensively measure state anhedonia in Chinese typical and depressed adolescents.

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