A meta-analytic investigation of problem gambling and self-harm: A causal inference perspective.
Conclusion: While these findings suggest there is an appreciable relationship between problem gambling and at least two forms of self-harm (suicide ideation and attempts), well-designed longitudinal research is needed to make more firm conclusions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 25, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Co-occurrence of food addiction, obesity, problematic substance use, and parental history of problematic alcohol use.
Conclusions: FA, but not obesity, co-occurred with problematic substance use and a parental history of problematic alcohol use. Results support the conceptualization of FA as an addictive disorder. The inclusion of FA as an addictive disorder in diagnostic frameworks is an important area of future consideration. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 25, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Associations of adult roles and minority stressors with trajectories of alcohol dependence symptoms throughout adulthood among sexual minority women.
Conclusions: Most SMW drinkers report deceleration in risk of AD symptoms over time. Findings have implications for prevention and intervention efforts tailored to SMW drinkers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 18, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Event-level risk for negative alcohol consequences in emerging adults: The role of affect, motivation, and context.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 8-18; doi:10.1037/adb0000866Objective: Decades of research has found support for the motivational model of alcohol use, such that positive/negative affect are indirectly associated with drinking behavior through drinking motives. However, research on event-level drinking motives is in its nascent stage, and studies have yet to consider how drinking context plays a role in the motivational pathway to both event- and person-level drinking behavior. Therefore, the present study seeks to test whether drinking context mediates the effect of affect and motivation on drinkin...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 14, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Exposure to other people’s gambling and gambling behaviors in Australian secondary school students.
Conclusions: There is a need to address the modeling of gambling behaviors by young people’s friends, family, and others, in order to reduce gambling behaviors and problem gambling among Australian adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 14, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Self-relevant appeals to engage in self-monitoring of alcohol use: A microrandomized trial.
Conclusions: These results suggest that the advantage of prompts that appeal to a person’s self-interest (vs. prosocial) motives varies over time and based on what reward options participants prioritized in previous decisions. Theoretical and practical implications for intervention design are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 14, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Augmented reality for extinction of cue-provoked urges to smoke: Proof of concept.
Conclusions: These laboratory findings provide evidence supporting the potential clinical efficacy of AR cues for cue-exposure trials, setting the stage for testing in smokers’ naturalistic environments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 14, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Bidirectional prospective associations between behavioral economic indicators and drinking patterns during alcohol use disorder natural recovery attempts.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Vol 37(1), Feb 2023, 104-113; doi:10.1037/adb0000859Objectives: Behavioral economic (BE) theory posits that harmful alcohol use is a joint product of elevated alcohol demand and preference for immediate over delayed rewards. Despite cross-sectional research support, whether expected bidirectional relations exist between BE indicators and drinking during recovery attempts is unknown. Therefore, this prospective research investigated quarter-by-quarter cross-lagged associations between BE simulation tasks and drinking following a natural recovery attempt. Higher demand and discounting in a ...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 11, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Do couple drinking episodes lead to intimate partner aggression? An ecological momentary assessment study of same-sex and mixed-sex couples.
Conclusions: There are robust alcohol effects on the occurrence of verbal aggression perpetration and victimization episodes, with weak effects on physical aggression perpetration. Conflicts that include alcohol are not more likely to include aggression; rather, alcohol increases the likelihood of conflict occurring, with a proportion of those involving verbal aggression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 7, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Promoting uptake of efficacious brief alcohol interventions for young adults within institutions of higher education: Challenges and opportunities.
Conclusions: Alcohol researchers can play a key role in promoting effective, consistent, and timely implementation of efficacious brief interventions in campus-based clinical service settings through strategic engagement with college and university mental health professionals and senior-level decision-makers using a system-focused lens. Both institutional and national-level collaboration and advocacy for translational research opportunities are critical to encourage dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of efficacious brief intervention practices. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (So...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 7, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Etiology of problem gambling in Canada.
Conclusions: The predictors of problematic gambling in the present study are very similar to the predictors identified in prior international longitudinal and cross-sectional research. This implies core cross-cultural risk factors, with gambling-related variables and impulsivity being most important, and comorbidities and demographic variables having more modest contributions. The additional value of the present results is that they comprehensively identify the relative importance of all known etiologically relevant variables within a current Canadian context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (S...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 4, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Impact of discrimination and coping on Veterans’ willingness to seek treatment for physical and mental health problems.
Conclusions: Veterans are least willing to seek treatment for the health conditions that are most prevalent in their communities. Coping strategies may mitigate the negative association between discriminatory experiences and willingness to seek treatment among Veterans of color. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 4, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Substance-related cross-commodity purchase tasks: A systematic review.
Conclusions: We discuss the implications of the results of this review from a treatment and harm reduction standpoint, highlight areas for future research particularly among drug categories with few studies and evaluating ecological validity of hypothetical measures, and make best practice recommendations for future cross-commodity drug-related purchase task research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 4, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Addictive behavior as molar behavioral allocation: Distinguishing efficient and final causes in translational research and practice.
Conclusions: Although efficient cause analysis has dominated translational research, research supports viewing addictive behavior as molar behavioral allocation. Increasing concern with rate variables underpinning final cause analysis and considering how study methods and temporal units of analysis inform an efficient or final cause analysis may advance understanding of addictive behaviors that occur over time in dynamic environmental contexts. This approach provides linkages between behavioral science and disciplines that study social determinants of health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (So...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 4, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Back to the basics and fast forward to multiculturalism.
Conclusion: Researchers must pivot to advance understandings concerning early adult substance use interventions among minoritized populations and in the context of intersectionality in order to promote broader uptake. Multicultural psychology may offer novel conceptualizations that would help to diversify early adult interventions as well as help to address gaps in understanding the intervention needs of minoritized early adults. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - July 4, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
