The interplay of stress and electrocortical reactivity to reward in the prospective prediction of depression symptoms during COVID-19

Feurer, Cope; Granros, Maria; Calentino, Alison E.; Suor, Jennifer H.; Patel, Khushboo; Burkhouse, Katie L.

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.05.034

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“…Finally, results indicated a main effect of social stress on prospective increases in both anxiety and depression symptoms. Although a prior study utilizing an overlapping subsample of the current study did not observe a main effect of social stress on depression symptoms (Feurer et al, 2021), this may have been due to examining social stress within specific domains (i.e., peer, mother-child, family) in the prior study rather than overall social functioning across domains.…”

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Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli

Feurer

Granros

Calentino

et al. 2022

Developmental Psychobiology

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Despite evidence that stress exposure increases risk for internalizing symptoms in youth, it remains unclear which youth are most vulnerable. This study examined whether youth's prepandemic late positive potential (LPP), an electrocortical marker of sustained attention to affective stimuli, exacerbated the impact of stress on prospective increases in depression and anxiety symptoms from before to during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Participants were 29 youth (ages 9–16, 82.8% girls) who completed depression and anxiety symptom measures and an affective words task to assess LPP to positive and negative self‐referential stimuli prepandemic onset. Postpandemic onset, approximately 16.03 months (SD = 8.86) after their baseline assessments, youth again completed symptom measures as well as the UCLA Life Stress Interview to assess ongoing social and financial chronic stress. Results indicated a significant interaction between youth LPP to negative words and financial stress. Greater exposure to financial stress during the pandemic predicted greater anxiety symptom increases specifically for youth who demonstrated enhanced prepandemic LPP to negative words. Results were specific to the prediction of anxiety, but not depression, symptoms. If replicated in larger studies, findings highlight enhanced LPP to negative stimuli as a promising target for intervention for youth exposed to greater financial stress.

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Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli

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Granros

Calentino

et al. 2022

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…Furthering the notion that low reward responsiveness could make people particularly vulnerable when they encounter stressors, studies have indicated that exposure to stressful life events moderates the association between the RewP and depressive symptoms across adolescence and early adulthood, such that the combination of low reward responsiveness and high stress is associated with the greatest risk for depression (e.g., Burani et al, 2021). Similarly, in recent studies, exposure to stressful events related to the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., social isolation, job loss, financial strain) predicted the strength of associations between the RewP and increases in symptoms of depression across the course of the early days and months of the pandemic (Feurer et al, 2021;Freeman et al, 2021).…”

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Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events

Weinberg

Kujawa

Riesel

2022

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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Between-individuals variation in neural responses to errors and rewards is associated with the degree of risk for developing depression and anxiety, but not all individuals with perturbations in systems that generate these responses go on to develop symptoms. We propose that exposure to stressful life events may determine when these individual differences in neural responses to errors and rewards result in anxiety or depression. In this article, we review key findings and discuss limitations and questions in research on how stressors interact with reward and error processing to predict the development of symptoms. We conclude by outlining future research directions.

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“…RewP amplitudes for each condition were calculated as the average area under the curve at frontocentral midline recording sites (Fz, FCz, Cz) between 250 and 350 ms. These sites and time windows were chosen according to the visual inspection of the grand average ERP waveforms and scalp topographies in our data and in line with previous studies (Feurer et al, 2021;Webb et al, 2021). The ERP index of reward responsiveness was quantified as the unstandardized residual scores (i.e.…”

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“…For example, longitudinal studies revealed that a blunted RewP was associated with more severe depression after 18 months by cumulative life stress among young adolescent girls (Mackin et al, 2019), and in children and adolescents with higher levels of general life stress across several months (Burani et al, 2021; Goldstein et al, 2020). Furthermore, an attenuated RewP predicted the increase in depression induced by cumulative lifetime stressors (Burani et al, 2022; Pegg et al, 2019) or one specific type of stress like social and financial stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic (Feurer et al, 2021). In contrast, Corral‐Frías et al (2016) found that individuals with high behavioural (shorter reaction time to reward cue) and self‐reported reward sensitivity showed more positive affects after exposure to laboratory‐induced stress.…”

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Blunted reward responsiveness prospectively predicts emotional distress when exposed to a naturalistic stressor

Yan

Kohn

Wei

et al. 2022

British J of Psychology

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Both stress and blunted reward responsiveness have been identified as core risk factors of depression. Whether blunted reward responsiveness increases psychological vulnerability to real‐life stress from a dynamic perspective (from stress reactivity to recovery) has not been investigated. By utilizing a real‐world stressful event (i.e. the final examination), this study aimed to explore the role of reward responsiveness in the stress‐emotional distress relationship during stress reactivity and recovery phases. We followed 57 undergraduates with three assessments, from six weeks before examination weeks (T1, baseline), one day before the examinations (T2) to two weeks after the examinations (T3), therefore, covering stress reactivity (T1 to T2) and recovery (T2 to T3) phases. At baseline, reward responsiveness was measured as the Reward Positivity (RewP) in the doors task. Stress and emotional distress (anxiety and depression) were reported at T1, T2 and T3 to capture their dynamic changes. Results showed that self‐report stress levels significantly increased from T1 to T2 (stress reactivity phase) and decreased from T2 to T3 (stress recovery phase). Furthermore, blunted reward responsiveness at baseline prospectively predicted emotional distress during the stress reactivity phase but not the recovery phase. Specifically, during the stress reactivity phase, higher perceived stress was associated with greater anxiety and depression only in participants with relatively smaller residual RewP amplitudes but not in participants with relatively larger residual RewP amplitudes. Our study demonstrated that a blunted reward responsiveness is a vulnerable factor of depression, especially when exposed to stress. Our findings provide insights into prevention and intervention for stress‐related disturbance.

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The interplay of stress and electrocortical reactivity to reward in the prospective prediction of depression symptoms during COVID-19

Cited by 12 publications

References 48 publications

Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli

Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli

Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events

Blunted reward responsiveness prospectively predicts emotional distress when exposed to a naturalistic stressor

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