TY - JOUR
T1 - Reinforcement sensitivity, depression and anxiety
T2 - A meta-analysis and meta-analytic structural equation model
AU - Katz, Benjamin A.
AU - Matanky, Kathryn
AU - Aviram, Gidi
AU - Yovel, Iftah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) posits that individual differences in reward and punishment processing predict differences in cognition, behavior, and psychopathology. We performed a quantitative review of the relationships between reinforcement sensitivity, depression and anxiety, in two separate sets of analyses. First, we reviewed 204 studies that reported either correlations between reinforcement sensitivity and self-reported symptom severity or differences in reinforcement sensitivity between diagnosed and healthy participants, yielding 483 effect sizes. Both depression (Hedges’ g =.99) and anxiety (g = 1.21) were found to be high on punishment sensitivity. Reward sensitivity negatively predicted only depressive disorders (g = −.21). More severe clinical states (e.g., acute vs remission) predicted larger effect sizes for depression but not anxiety. Next, we reviewed an additional 39 studies that reported correlations between reinforcement sensitivity and both depression and anxiety, yielding 156 effect sizes. We then performed meta-analytic structural equation modeling to simultaneously estimate all covariances and control for comorbidity. Again we found punishment sensitivity to predict depression (β =.37) and anxiety (β =.35), with reward sensitivity only predicting depression (β = −.07). The transdiagnostic role of punishment sensitivity and the discriminatory role of reward sensitivity support a hierarchical approach to RST and psychopathology.
AB - Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) posits that individual differences in reward and punishment processing predict differences in cognition, behavior, and psychopathology. We performed a quantitative review of the relationships between reinforcement sensitivity, depression and anxiety, in two separate sets of analyses. First, we reviewed 204 studies that reported either correlations between reinforcement sensitivity and self-reported symptom severity or differences in reinforcement sensitivity between diagnosed and healthy participants, yielding 483 effect sizes. Both depression (Hedges’ g =.99) and anxiety (g = 1.21) were found to be high on punishment sensitivity. Reward sensitivity negatively predicted only depressive disorders (g = −.21). More severe clinical states (e.g., acute vs remission) predicted larger effect sizes for depression but not anxiety. Next, we reviewed an additional 39 studies that reported correlations between reinforcement sensitivity and both depression and anxiety, yielding 156 effect sizes. We then performed meta-analytic structural equation modeling to simultaneously estimate all covariances and control for comorbidity. Again we found punishment sensitivity to predict depression (β =.37) and anxiety (β =.35), with reward sensitivity only predicting depression (β = −.07). The transdiagnostic role of punishment sensitivity and the discriminatory role of reward sensitivity support a hierarchical approach to RST and psychopathology.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Depression
KW - Meta-analytic structural equation modeling
KW - Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory
KW - Reward processing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85081561266&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101842
DO - 10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101842
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C2 - 32179341
AN - SCOPUS:85081561266
SN - 0272-7358
VL - 77
JO - Clinical Psychology Review
JF - Clinical Psychology Review
M1 - 101842
ER -