Drinking Motives Predict Subjective Effects of Alcohol and Alcohol Wanting and Liking During Laboratory Alcohol Administration: A Mediated Pathway Analysis

Jeffrey D. Wardell; Vijay A. Ramchandani; Christian S. Hendershot

doi:10.1111/acer.13174

Drinking Motives Predict Subjective Effects of Alcohol and Alcohol Wanting and Liking During Laboratory Alcohol Administration: A Mediated Pathway Analysis

Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research ◽

10.1111/acer.13174 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 40 (10) ◽

pp. 2190-2198 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jeffrey D. Wardell ◽

Vijay A. Ramchandani ◽

Christian S. Hendershot

Keyword(s):

Pathway Analysis ◽

Subjective Effects ◽

Drinking Motives ◽

Alcohol Administration

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Changes in interoception after alcohol administration correlate with expectancies and subjective effects

Addiction Biology ◽

10.1111/adb.13098 ◽

2021 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mateo Leganes‐Fonteneau ◽

Marsha E. Bates ◽

Shahriar Islam ◽

Jennifer F. Buckman

Keyword(s):

Subjective Effects ◽

Alcohol Administration

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Changes in interoception after alcohol administration correlate with expectancies and subjective effects

10.31234/osf.io/fzktp ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mateo Leganes-Fonteneau ◽

Jennifer Buckman ◽

Shahriar Islam ◽

Marsha Bates

Keyword(s):

Subjective Effects ◽

Drinking Behavior ◽

Alcohol Expectancies ◽

Subjective Feeling ◽

Placebo Condition ◽

Alcohol Administration ◽

Interoceptive Sensitivity ◽

Interoceptive Accuracy ◽

Bodily States ◽

Induced Changes

Interoceptive signals give rise to subjective feeling states that can drive motivational and behavioral responses. In the context of alcohol use behaviors, interoceptive signals may shape subjective alcohol experiences, and thereby support bio-behavioral mechanisms of drinking behavior change. This study examined the acute effects of alcohol on participants’ interoceptive sensitivity, and determined whether pharmacologically induced changes in heart beat detection correlate with subjective alcohol effects, craving and expectancies.Participants completed a two-session, double-blind placebo controlled experiment (n=31). Participants consumed a beverage containing 0.4g/kg of alcohol or a placebo. They also completed measurements of alcohol expectancies at baseline, and alcohol-induced changes in mood, craving and light-headedness. Interoceptive sensitivity was measured using the heartbeat discrimination task prior to and following beverage administration, yielding indices of interoceptive accuracy, confidence and meta-cognition. Alcohol administration increased interoceptive accuracy compared to baseline and placebo; and those changes in interoception negatively correlated with negative alcohol expectancies. Further, changes in interoception positively correlated with perceived light-headedness and positive mood after alcohol administration, whereas null effects were found for craving. In the placebo condition, null results were obtained. Alcohol is well established to change bodily states, and here we find that the extent to which alcohol increases participants’ sensitivity to bodily states impacts their subjective drinking experiences. This was observed in relation to mood and light-headedness, but also on prospective alcohol expectancies. We posit that over successive alcohol experiences, changes in bodily states may feed into the development of alcohol expectancies that could in turn predict future drinking behaviors.

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Being Drunk to Have Fun or to Forget Problems?

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000007 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 46-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Emmanuel Kuntsche ◽

Ronald Knibbe ◽

Rutger Engels ◽

Gerhard Gmel

Keyword(s):

Social Relationships ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Risk Groups ◽

Drinking Motives ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Cluster Analyses ◽

High Concordance ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Risky Single Occasion Drinking

Prevention programs in adolescence are particularly effective if they target homogeneous risk groups of adolescents who share a combination of particular needs and problems. The present work aims to identify and classify risky single-occasion drinking (RSOD) adolescents according to their motivation to engage in drinking. An easy-to-use coding procedure was developed. It was validated by means of cluster analyses and structural equation modeling based on two randomly selected subsamples of a nationally representative sample of 2,449 12- to 18-year-old RSOD students in Switzerland. Results revealed that the coding procedure classified RSOD adolescents as either enhancement drinkers or coping drinkers. The high concordance (Sample A: κ = .88, Sample B: κ = .90) with the results of the cluster analyses demonstrated the convergent validity of the coding classification. The fact that enhancement drinkers in both subsamples were found to go out more frequently in the evenings and to have more satisfactory social relationships, as well as a higher proportion of drinking peers and a lower likelihood to drink at home than coping drinkers demonstrates the concurrent validity of the classification. To conclude, the coding procedure appears to be a valid, reliable, and easy-to-use tool that can help better adapt prevention activities to adolescent risky drinking motives.

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