Shame in Response to Affective Expression and Its Relation to Social Anhedonia and Schizotypy Traits

Schizotypy is marked by negative symptoms including blunted affect, social isolation, and social anhedonia. Contemporary personality theory suggests that maladaptive shame regulation may disrupt interpersonal function across personality disorders. We hypothesized that “affect shame”—a conditioned response of shame evoked by openly expressing emotions would co-occur with interpersonal deficits in schizotypy. As hypothesized, affect shame was associated with interpersonal deficits (r = 0.17, p

Source: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease - January 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research