URGE COPING AND ALCOHOL-RELATED INFORMATION PROCESSING

申请人摘要：物质使用和滥用的最新认知模型 已经引起了更多的关注，认为饮酒行为可能是 受多种认知系统的影响。这些模型表明， 有意识地意识到冲动或想法的过程， 饮酒可能与其他认知功能相互作用，但独立于其他认知功能运作。 饮酒行为背后的过程本提案通过 这种认知处理的方法来研究如何努力控制 对酒精暗示的反应可能会影响那些 酒精相关危害风险（危险饮酒者）。敦促和想法 对于饮酒的人来说，这往往是一个相当大的困难。 试图控制他们的酒精使用。因此，认知行为 干预和治疗方案通常涉及技能培训， 帮助个人管理他们对饮酒触发因素的主观反应， 线索尽管冲动应对技巧被广泛使用， 关于这些策略可能有效的机制， 减少危险的饮酒或他们可能最容易 减少危险饮酒或他们可能被 最有用的这个项目旨在研究如何努力控制冲动， 饮酒会影响对酒精相关信息的处理， 危险的饮酒者这项研究的结果将有助于我们 认知控制策略对危险行为的影响 饮酒行为，并提供信息的条件下， 认知策略可能是最有效的控制反应， 酒精暗示认知自我调节策略 对同时和随后的处理有明显的影响 不同类型的酒精相关信息有相当大的 对理解自我引导的改变尝试和 建立更有效的干预措施。第一个奖项是 旨在为研究这些问题提供第一步， 检查冲动控制策略对随后的 饮酒行为和酒精相关认知。

APPLICANT'S ABSTRACT: Recent cognitive models of substance use and abuse have drawn greater attention to the view that drinking behavior may be influenced by multiple cognitive systems. These models suggest that processes that underlie conscious awareness of urges or thoughts about drinking may interact with, but operate independently of, other cognitive processes that underlie drinking behavior. The present proposal adopts this cognitive processing approach to investigate how efforts to control response to alcohol cues may influence drinking behavior among those at risk for alcohol related harm (hazardous drinkers). Urges and thoughts about drinking are often a source of considerable difficulty for those attempting to control their alcohol use. Consequently cognitive-behavioral interventions and treatment programs typically involve skill-training to help individuals manage their subjective responses to drinking triggers or cues. Despite the broad use of urge coping skills, there is little known about the mechanisms by which these strategies may be effective for reducing hazardous drinking or the conditions under which they may be most for reducing hazardous drinking or the conditions under which they may be most useful. This project seeks to examine how efforts to control urges to drink affects the processing of alcohol-related information among hazardous drinkers. Results of this study will contribute to our understanding of the effects of cognitive control strategies on hazardous drinking behavior and provide information on the conditions under which cognitive strategies may be most effective in controlling response to alcohol cues. The proposition that cognitive-self regulation strategies have distinct effects on the concurrent and subsequent processing of different types of alcohol-related information has considerable implications for understanding self-guided attempts to change and for constructing more effective interventions. This FIRST award proposal is designed to provide a first step in studying these issues through examination of the effects of urge control strategies on subsequent drinking behavior and alcohol-related cognition.