@article{ref1,
title="Sensitivity to reward and punishment in adolescents with repetitive non-suicidal self-injury: the role of inhibitory control",
journal="International journal of clinical and health psychology",
year="2024",
author="Liu, Jinmeng and Wang, Hui and Xing, Shufen and Liu, Xia",
volume="24",
number="2",
pages="e100456-e100456",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Repetitive Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (R-NSSI) is complex and prevalent in adolescents. Although the reward system is a promising mechanism to explain R-NSSI, the specific processes of reward and punishment related to R-NSSI remain unclear. This study examined whether adolescents with R-NSSI displayed difficulties in both reward and punishment contexts, and further explored the role of inhibitory control in processing monetary reward and punishment. <br><br>METHODS: Within a cohort from two middle schools (N = 3,475, 48.6 % female, M(age) = 12.95), a total of 187 adolescents completed three novel behavioral tasks. Specifically, in Study 1, 36 adolescents with R-NSSI and 28 without NSSI completed adapted incentive-delay tasks to evaluate sensitivity to reward and punishment. In Study 2, 27 adolescents with R-NSSI and 21 without NSSI were given novel incentive delay-two choice oddball task to evaluate the interaction between reward and inhibitory control. In Study 3, 38 adolescents with R-NSSI and 35 without NSSI completed similar task to assess the interaction between punishment and inhibitory control. <br><br>RESULTS: Adolescents with R-NSSI were characterized by higher levels of behavioral reward and punishment sensitivity than adolescents without NSSI. More importantly, the difference between reward and punishment in inhibitory control of R-NSSI was found. Compared to adolescents without NSSI, adolescents with R-NSSI showed lower levels of inhibitory control in response to cues depicting punishment content but not to those depicting reward content. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This study provides novel experimental evidence that heightened behavioral sensitivity to both reward and punishment may be relevant trait marker in R-NSSI among adolescents, and emphasizes that punishment not reward interact with inhibitory control in the R-NSSI.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1697-2600",
doi="10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100456",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100456"
}