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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Psychopathology

Background:

  • Reward positivity (RewP) measures sensitivity to social feedback.
  • Larger RewP to social rejection correlates with internalizing issues like anxiety and depression.
  • The role of transdiagnostic psychopathology dimensions is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between RewP to social feedback and transdiagnostic dimensions of psychopathology.
  • To determine if RewP to social rejection or acceptance predicts negative emotionality and maladaptive traits.
  • To explore the RewP as a potential transdiagnostic marker.

Main Methods:

  • 222 participants (18-35 years) completed social feedback tasks with electroencephalography (EEG) to measure RewP.
  • EEG data measured RewP to social acceptance and rejection.
  • Self-report measures assessed pathological personality traits for hierarchical modeling of internalizing psychopathology.

Main Results:

  • A larger RewP to social rejection directly predicted higher-order negative emotionality.
  • RewP to social rejection indirectly predicted maladaptive traits.
  • RewP to social acceptance showed no significant associations with negative emotionality or traits.

Conclusions:

  • A heightened neural response to social rejection is associated with greater negative emotionality.
  • The RewP to negative social feedback may serve as a transdiagnostic marker for internalizing disorders.
  • Altered social information processing, indicated by RewP, is relevant across internalizing conditions.