Stress increases attentional bias for alcohol cues in social drinkers who drink to cope
Stress increases attentional bias for alcohol cues in social drinkers who drink to cope
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DOI:
10.1093/alcalc/agm064
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发表时间:
2007-11-01
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
Powell, Hannah
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作者:
Field, Matt;Powell, Hannah
Aims: To investigate the effects of stress on alcohol craving and attentional bias for alcohol-related cues in a group of heavy social drinkers. Method: Forty-four heavy social drinkers were exposed to either a laboratory stressor task or a control manipulation before completing a questionnaire measure of alcohol craving and a visual probe task which measured attentional bias for alcohol-related cues. Participants were subdivided into those with high and low levels of coping motives for drinking. Results: Compared to a control manipulation, the laboratory stressor task produced increases in alcohol craving (P < 0.01). The laboratory stressor task also produced a significant attentional bias for alcohol-related cues, but only among participants who had high levels of coping motives (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Findings are broadly consistent with contemporary negative reinforcement models of substance abuse, and with models of subjective craving and attentional biases for substance-related cues.