Data from: Trait anticipatory pleasure predicts effort expenditure for reward

Research in motivation and emotion has been increasingly influenced by the perspective that processes underpinning the motivated approach of rewarding goals are distinct from those underpinning enjoyment during reward consummation. This distinction recently inspired the construction of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS), a self-report measure that distinguishes trait anticipatory pleasure (pre-reward feelings of desire) from consummatory pleasure (feelings of enjoyment and gratification upon reward attainment). In a university community sample (N = 97), we examined the TEPS subscales as predictors of (1) the willingness to expend effort for monetary rewards, and (2) affective responses to a pleasant mood induction procedure. Results showed that both anticipatory pleasure and a well-known trait measure of reward motivation predicted effort-expenditure for rewards when the probability of being rewarded was relatively low. Against expectations, consummatory pleasure was unrelated to induced pleasant affect. Taken together, our findings provide support for the validity of the TEPS anticipatory pleasure scale, but not the consummatory pleasure scale

PLoS One Excel EEfRT Trial Datafile

Contains trial-wise data from participant performances of the EEfRT task. See ReadMe file for more information

PLoS One Excel Main Datafile

Contains trait questionnaire, state affect, and behavioral task data derived from laboratory research with human participants. See ReadMe for variable descriptions

Zero-Order Correlations Between EEfRT Hard-Task Proportions and Trait Variables.

<p><i>Note</i>. EEfRT = Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task; TEPS-ANT = TEPS Anticipatory Pleasure subscale; TEPS-CON = TEPS Consummatory Pleasure subscale; BAS = Behavioral Activation System scale; SHAPS = Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale.</p><p>* <i>p</i> < .05;</p><p>** <i>p</i> < .01</p><p>Zero-Order Correlations Between EEfRT Hard-Task Proportions and Trait Variables.</p

Descriptive Statistics and Inter-Correlations of Self-Report Variables.

<p><i>Note</i>. TEPS-ANT = TEPS Anticipatory Pleasure subscale; TEPS-CON = TEPS Consummatory Pleasure subscale; BAS = Behavioral Activation System scale; SHAPS = Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale; Pre/post = before/after the mood induction.</p><p>* <i>p</i> < .05;</p><p>** <i>p</i> < .01</p><p>Descriptive Statistics and Inter-Correlations of Self-Report Variables.</p