Personalized lifestyle advice alters affective reactivity to negative events in anhedonic young adults

Anhedonia is a common symptom of several disorders, but cost-effective treatments that focus on anhedonia specifically have been lacking. Therefore, personalized lifestyle advice has recently investigated as suitable means enhancing pleasure and positive affect (PA) in young adults with anhedonia. This intervention provided individuals which was based observed individual patterns behaviors experienced daily life. The present study extends this previous work by examining potential mechanism treatment success, affective reactivity. We explored changes reactivity to events life from pre- post-intervention subclinical sample (N = 69). Using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), participants answered questions their activities, levels, PA negative (NA) before after intervention. Multilevel analysis revealed did not experience an altered depended level improvement mean-PA used majority being female limited generalizability findings. suggests underlying effectiveness advice.