Aberrant asociality: how individual differences in social anhedonia illuminate the need to belong

Silvia, Paul J.; Kwapil, Thomas R.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00702.x

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Aberrant asociality: how individual differences in social anhedonia illuminate the need to belong

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Silvia, Paul J., Kwapil, Thomas R.·2011·Journal of Personality

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The need to belong, a fundamental concept in psychology, organizes a wide range of findings in the study of interpersonal relationships. We suggest that human belongingness needs can be illuminated by examining when they go awry. We review research on social anhedonia, a trait that involves a marked disinterest in interpersonal contact. Social anhedonia has a long history in clinical psychology, particularly in the study of schizotypy and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, but it is just starting to get attention from social and personality psychologists. Three lines of research-cross-sectional studies of individual differences, longitudinal studies of risk for psychopathology, and experience-sampling studies of interpersonal behavior-suggest that (1) social anhedonia represents genuine social disinterest, not merely shyness, introversion, or social anxiety, and (2) people high in social anhedonia have consistently poorer functioning, including a higher risk for developing schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Just as satisfied relatedness needs promote flourishing, dysfunctional social needs promote psychopathology.

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Authors: Silvia, P. J., & Kwapil, T. R.
Affiliations: University of North Carolina at Greensboro (US)
Corresponding author: Silvia, Paul J.
Kwapil, Thomas R.
ORCID: Silvia, Paul J.
Kwapil, Thomas R.
Venue: Journal of Personality
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-10-19
Volume: 79
Issue: 6
Pages: 1315-1332
ISSN: 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
1467-6494
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00702.x
OpenAlex: W1577904384
Cited by: 87
References: 48
Citations by year: 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 2
FWCI: 0.31
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
libres.uncg.edu
Licence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations: Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Keywords: social anhedonia, need to belong, individual differences, schizotypy, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, interpersonal relationships, psychopathology risk, shyness, introversion, social anxiety, relatedness
MeSH terms: Mental Disorders, Cross-Sectional Studies, Humans, Individuality, Interpersonal Relations, Longitudinal Studies, Personality, Risk Factors, Social Adjustment, Social Identification, Anhedonia

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