VIDEO: Social, monetary rewards linked to anxiety, depression during postpartum period

WASHINGTON — Monetary and social rewards had different relationships with anxiety and depression in postpartum women, according to a poster presented here.
Emili Cárdenas, MS, a clinical psychology PhD student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and colleagues developed a social incentive delay task for women who were 8 weeks postpartum, which included either a financial or social reward or loss feedback. Social rewards were visually represented by a green arrow and a photo of the participants’ infants, and social loss was represented by a red arrow and a photo of rocks.
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WASHINGTON — Monetary and social rewards had different relationships with anxiety and depression in postpartum women, according to a poster presented here.
Emili Cárdenas, MS, a clinical psychology PhD student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and colleagues developed a social incentive delay task for women who were 8 weeks postpartum, which included either a financial or social reward or loss feedback. Social rewards were visually represented by a green arrow and a photo of the participants’ infants, and social loss was represented by a red arrow and a photo of rocks.
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