TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Individual differences in Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale (ANPS) primary emotional traits and depressive tendencies
JO  - Comprehensive psychiatry
A1  - Montag, Christian
A1  - Widenhorn-Müller, Katharina
A1  - Panksepp, Jaak
A1  - Kiefer, Markus
SP  - 136
EP  - 142
VL  - 73
IS  - 
N2  - BACKGROUND: The present study investigated individual differences in the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS), representing measures of primary emotional systems, and depressive tendencies in two independent samples. <br><br>METHODS: In order to be able to find support for a continuum model with respect to the relation of strength in the cross-species "affective neuroscience" taxonomy of primary emotional systems, we investigated ANPS measured personality traits in a psychologically mostly healthy population (n=614 participants) as well as a sample of clinically depressed people (n=55 depressed patients). <br><br>RESULTS: In both normal and depressed samples robust associations appeared between higher FEAR and SADNESS scores and depressive tendencies. A similar - albeit weaker - association was observed with lower SEEKING system scores and higher depressive tendencies, an effect again seen in both samples. LIMITATIONS: The study is of cross-sectional nature and therefore only associations between primary emotional systems and depressive tendencies were evaluated. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These results show that similar associations between ANPS monitored primary emotional systems and tendencies toward depression can be observed in both healthy and depressed participants. This lends support for a continuum of affective changes accompanying depression, potentially reflecting differences in specific brain emotional system activities in both affectively normal as well as clinically depressed individuals.<br><br>Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0010-440X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2016.11.007
ID  - ref1
ER  -