Behavioral Undercontrol and Subjective Stimulant and Sedative Effects of Alcohol Intoxication: Independent Predictors of Drinking Habits?

Abstract

These findings may help to better understand the variability in drinking behavior, and this may be critical in eventually developing and appropriately targeting prevention efforts.

Application of an alcohol clamp paradigm to examine inhibitory control, subjective responses, and acute tolerance in late adolescence.

“…Findings also showed that ADHD symptoms predicted steeper increases in stimulation, but only on the ascending limb. In contrast to prior studies of sensation seeking and related personality traits (e.g., Erblich & Earleywine, 2003; Fillmore, et al, 2009; Leeman, et al, 2014; Scott & Corbin, 2014), sensation seeking did not moderate changes in subjective stimulation. Because the association of subjective stimulant or sedative effects with motivational indicators (e.g., craving, wanting) may have etiological relevance (King, et al, 2011), further laboratory studies of these associations, including the examination of individual or pharmacological (e.g., BAC limb) moderators, is likely important.…”

Acute subjective response to alcohol as a function of reward and punishment sensitivity

“…This finding extends prior work (Brunelle et al, 2004; Erblich & Earleywine, 2003; Leeman et al, 2014; Scott & Corbin, 2014) and provides initial evidence for one mechanism by which personality influences drinking habits. However, important next steps are to determine whether the association of reward sensitivity and acute stimulation is best accounted for by the pharmacological and/or expectancy effects of alcohol, and, further, whether findings extend to more diverse samples and age groups and at varied doses of alcohol.…”

“…Of the various ways that personality promotes alcohol misuse (Littlefield & Sher, 2010), one that has gained increasing research attention is the contribution of personality to subjective response to alcohol (Erblich & Earleywine, 2003; Leeman et al, 2014; Scott & Corbin, 2014). Subjective response is implicated in virtually all theoretical models of alcohol misuse (Newlin & Renton, 2010; Schuckit, 2009).…”

“…To date, most studies examining the association between personality and subjective response to alcohol have focused on traits such as sensation seeking (Scott & Corbin, 2014), impulsiveness (Leeman et al, 2014), and behavioral undercontrol (Erblich & Earleywine, 2003). However, factor analytic studies indicate that these traits are only modestly related to BIS- and BAS-mediated traits (Caseras, Ávila, & Torrubia, 2003; Depue & Collings, 1999; Franken & Muris, 2006; Quilty & Oakman, 2004; Zelenski & Larsen, 1999).…”

Expanding the Utility of the Biphasic Alcohol Effects Scale (BAES) and Initial Psychometric Support for the Brief‐BAES (B‐BAES)

“…In addition, the pattern of correlations between baseline (i.e., sober) ratings and post-drink ratings is consistent with the idea that BAES responses with this instructional set are independent of ratings of mood when sober. Although the BAES was developed with the intention of assessing subjects' ratings of mood specifically related to alcohol's effect, numerous investigators have used modified instructions, and have employed a baseline pre-drink assessment (Blomqvist et al, 2002; Brunelle et al, 2007; Davidson et al, 2002; Epstein et al, 2007; Erblich and Earlywine, 2003; Erblich et al, 2003; King et al, 2002; Morzorati et al, 2002; Ray and Hutchison, 2007), and/or stressed the importance of baseline assessments if they were not taken (Thomas et al, 2004). However, use of these parameters has been beyond that of the original factor analytic studies (Earlywine & Erlich, 1996; Martin et al, 1993).…”