A general model of demand and discounting.
Conclusions: This report describes the first general model of time-dependent demand and delay discounting. The model implicates cross-commodity substitution as a potential factor in delay discounting. In the context of substance use disorder, the model underscores the importance of defining the properties of multicommodity demand (time elasticity, substitution, and amplitude) specific to the commodities and context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 30, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
The effect of alcohol packaging size and strength on U.K. alcohol consumers’ classification of alcohol products as containing a single or multiple drinks.
Conclusions: The reported thresholds can help researchers and policy makers encourage more accurate self-monitoring of alcohol consumption. Future research should test whether single drink classifications moderate the effect of packaging size and strength reductions on alcohol consumption. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 27, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Behavioral construction of the future.
Conclusions: Rachlin’s teleological behaviorism is a valuable hypothesis, but limited by its ruling out of nonexternal rewards and of intrapersonal self-prediction, both of them useful for understanding nonsubstance addictions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 27, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
“Changes in alcohol use during COVID-19 and associations with contextual and individual difference variables: A systematic review and meta-analysis.” Correction to Acuff et al. (2022).
Conclusions: The identified factors associated with increased alcohol consumption should be considered in planning behavioral health services during future crisis events that abruptly alter everyday environments in ways that increase stress and decrease access to naturally occurring rewards. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 27, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Characterizing problematic internet use in a sample of heavy drinking emerging adults.
Objective: Problematic internet use (PIU) is characterized by excessive or poorly controlled internet use resulting in impairment or distress. PIU is most prevalent during emerging adulthood, a period marked by an increase in psychiatric disorders, including substance use disorders (SUDs). In a sample of high-risk emerging adults, the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between PIU and quality of life (QoL), psychiatric disorders, and impulsivity. Methods: Participants were a community sample of heavy drinking emerging adults in Hamilton, Ontario (N = 709). Measures included: PIU, QoL, eight psychiatric indic...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 27, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Effects of content and valence of episodic future thinking on delay discounting and alcohol demand.
This study examined whether the content (alcohol vs. nonalcohol) and valence (positive vs. negative) of episodic future thinking (EFT) are associated with delay discounting (DD) and alcohol demand. Method: Participants (N = 360) were college students (Mage = 21.64 years, 84.44% female, 76.11% White) reporting alcohol consumption in the past month recruited to participate in an online, cross-sectional study. Participants were randomly assigned to a control condition or one of four EFT cue-generation conditions (positive alcohol, negative alcohol, positive nonalcohol, and negative nonalcohol). Then participants in EFT condit...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 23, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Valuation of future alcohol in cross-commodity delay discounting is associated with alcohol misuse/consequences.
Conclusions: The observed associations indicate that willingness to invest in future access to alcohol may be associated with elevated alcohol use and related consequences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 23, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Understanding what changes adults in a smoking cessation study believe they need to make to quit smoking: A qualitative analysis of pre- and post-quit perceptions.
Conclusion: Prior to quitting, over a third of participants were unable to identify changes to increase cessation success. Those who could focus on triggers and cues for smoking. Postquit, participants reported using cessation strategies encouraged during study cessation counseling. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 23, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
A longitudinal examination of relations between competitive athletic participation, drinking norms, impulsivity, and sensation seeking and binge drinking throughout college.
Conclusions: Early participation in competitive athletics was associated with risk for binge drinking, even when accounting for several social and personality factors. Future studies using momentary assessment may be fruitful for identifying within-subject pathways of risk, including athlete specific factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 23, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
A longitudinal examination of relations between competitive athletic participation, drinking norms, impulsivity, and sensation seeking and binge drinking throughout college.
Conclusions: Early participation in competitive athletics was associated with risk for binge drinking, even when accounting for several social and personality factors. Future studies using momentary assessment may be fruitful for identifying within-subject pathways of risk, including athlete specific factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 23, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Telescoping and gender differences in high-risk gambling: Loss limit behavior in a population of electronic gaming machine players.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Vol 37(3), May 2023, 499-508; doi:10.1037/adb0000844Objective: Telescoping refers to the accelerated progression from starting a potentially addictive behavior to reaching a disordered level. For disordered gambling, telescoping has been reported for women compared to men. Most previous studies on telescoping have used clinical samples and retrospective reports, but this study examined a nonclinical population of gamblers using electronically tracked gambling behavior. Method: The sample consisted of Norsk Tipping’s Multix electronic gaming machine (EGM) customers during the period of M...
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 20, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Impact of acute stress on neural indices of positive and negative reinforcement processing in cannabis users.
Conclusion: Although initial findings contradict current allostatic models of addiction, exploratory findings suggest that history of TBI, and potentially other confounding variables related to increased risk of TBI experience, may influence the extent to which stressful experiences modulate the neurophysiology of both positive and negative reinforcement reward processing in CUD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 13, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Web-delivered multisession alcohol-linked attentional bias modification for binge drinking: Cognitive and behavioral effects in young adult college students.
Conclusions: This study provides preliminary support for the use of a novel web-based AtBM procedure that trains AB for negative alcohol-related expectancies, with intended effects on AB observed at 1-month follow-up. Further research is needed to establish generalization of cognitive bias effects and translation to significant reductions in hazardous drinking and to identify moderators of effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 9, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
Behavior change techniques in physical activity interventions for adults with substance use disorders: A systematic review.
Conclusions: Incorporating the eight most promising BCTs identified in this review in future PA interventions in SUD populations may improve SUD outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors - June 6, 2022 Category: Addiction Source Type: research
