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Assessment of Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS): the dimension of anhedonia in Italian healthy sample

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The Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS) is a rapid screening battery created for assessing the presence of anhedonia, namely the inability to experience pleasure. Although, this symptom has widely been investigated in clinical settings, individual differences in anhedonia are also present in healthy population. The aim of present study was to validate the translated Italian version of this test. One thousand six hundred ninety-seven consecutive healthy subjects (55% female) of different ages (age 18–82 years) underwent SHAPS. Participants who showed mild level of anhedonia also completed the Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS), Mood Disorders Insight Scale (MDIS), and Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS). The SHAPS showed good internal consistency and discriminant validity; moreover, the factorial analysis highlighted that SHAPS had a three-factor structure for explaining the anhedonic construct. 14.9% showed a significant reduction of hedonic tone (SHAPS ≥ 3). Finally, the degree of anhedonia was significantly correlated with BDI and BHS scores, but not with age or gender. Although anhedonia is a prominent feature of many psychiatric and neurological disorders, the presence of this symptom in the healthy population highlighted the importance to develop reliable tool. SHAPS shows good psychometric properties to assess multidimensional anhedonia symptoms also in Italian healthy population.

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  1. National Research Council (IBFM-CNR), Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, Viale Europa, 88100, Catanzaro, Italy

    Iolanda Martino & Antonio Cerasa

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

    Gabriella Santangelo

  3. Ascoc, Psychotherapy School Lamezia Terme, Lamezia Terme, Italy

    Daniela Moschella & Giovanni Capoderose

  4. Department of Sociology, “Magna Graecia” University, Catanzaro, Italy

    Luana Marino & Antonio Cerasa

  5. Department of Languages and Education Sciences, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, Arcavacata di Rende, 87036, Cosenza, Italy

    Rocco Servidio & Angela Costabile

  6. Biotecnomed SCARL, Catanzaro, Italy

    Antonio Augimeri

  7. Institute S. Anna-Research in Advanced Neurorehabilitation, 88900, Crotone, Italy

    Antonio Cerasa

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Martino, I., Santangelo, G., Moschella, D. et al. Assessment of Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS): the dimension of anhedonia in Italian healthy sample. Neurol Sci 39, 657–661 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-018-3260-2

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