Importance of alcohol-related expectations and emotional expressivity for prediction of motivation to refuse alcohol in alcohol-dependent patients

Slavinskienė, Justina; Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė, Kristina

doi:10.1016/j.medici.2014.07.002

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“…Results indicate that younger people understand the problem severity, that they adequately perceive consequences and damage that could face if they do not make a change. Accordingly, some studies suggest that older people could be in a phase of problem severity denial, which could cause them not to see negative consequences of alcohol in their daily functioning due to formed habits and attitudes [11]. This result is contrary to previous studies, according to which elderly people show higher total motivation for abstinence and therefore also higher recognition of problem [26,21,7].…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Subjects' average age in this study was 49 years that could, according to some categorizations, be defined as a sample of predominantly older people. Some other authors have already warned that there are not universally defined age groups [7,11]. To sum up, this result could be also affected by gender, because other studies showed that older women have higher abstinece motivation [7].…”

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confidence: 98%

“…It is also indicated that people with better control of negative emotions and frequent emotional support seeking, although with a rare instrumental support seeking have higher recognition, which means that individuals who learned how to regulate negative emotional states begin to question the necesity for change and become more open to accepting the change [17,15]. Absence of impulsiveness and negative expressiveness can lead to uncertainty in acceptability of addiction behavior and can be a trigger for accepting the change [11,16]. Results also suggest that motivation for abstinence in alcohol addicts can depend upon a change in emotional expression style [14][15][16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Results also suggest that motivation for abstinence in alcohol addicts can depend upon a change in emotional expression style [14][15][16]. Furthermore, higher recognition and ambivalence could be the reason for higher awareness of a fact that alcohol consumption cannot mask underlying emotions and that different coping styles for negative emotions are needed [11].…”

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“…Some theoretical concepts of motivation led to new scientific approaches that resulted in several motivational models with focus on stages of change. One of the models was developed by Miller and Tonigan who stated that motivation to change alcohol related behavior has three stages [10,11]. First stage is ambivalence in which a person is not completely certain if change of alcohol addictive behavior is needed.…”

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Socioemotional predictors of motivation for abstinence in alcohol addicts

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Motivation for abstinence is one of the most significant predictors of the patient's treatment engagement and completion, as well as the treatment outcome. Since this complex process has not been sufficiently studied, in clinical practice the need for a better understanding and perception of it has arisen, namely due to its significant contribution to hospital care programs. The aim of this study was to identify the socio-emotional predictors of motivation for abstinence in patients undergoing treatment for a minimum of 12 days. The study involved 72 volontary participants from Department of Alcohol Program in one psychiatric hospital. Motivation for abstinence was studied using the SOCRATES questionnaire which, along with the subscales of ambivalence, recognition and taking steps, represents a criterion. Demographic variables, emotional regulation and control, instrumental and emotional support seeking, life satisfaction, positive and negative emotions and flourishing were examined as potential predictors. Regression analysis showed that emotional regulation and control and instrumental and emotional support seeking significantly explain 15.8% of ambivalence, 29.4% of recognition and 30.6% of taking steps; life satisfaction, positive and negative emotions significantly explained 11.3% of taking steps, while flourishing accounted for 13.7% of taking steps. As for the demographic variables, only sex, age and education level acounted for 15.6% of recognition. In spite of the result obtained, the overall percentage of the explained variance is relatively low. Clinical implications of this study are significant and their greatest contribution is maximizing hospital care programs pertaining to rehabilitation of alcoholics.

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Assessing Alcohol Expectations in University Students: the APNE Scale

Gomà‐i‐Freixanet

Ferrero-Rincón

Granero

2022

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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The increasing prevalence of alcohol consumption at early ages has led to major efforts to identify alcohol drinking habits within this highly vulnerable group, and individuals with hazardous patterns of alcohol consumption. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Alcohol Positive and Negative Expectations Scale (APNE; a new screening tool developed to identify expectations toward alcohol), and to examine the patterns of alcohol drinking in young adults. The sample included n = 1309 participants (college students) with age range 20 to 25 years. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) performed through Generalized Structural Equation Models (GSEM) verified the structure of the APNE, correlational models evaluated convergent-discriminant validity, and logistic regression assessed the discriminative ability to identify harmful drinking. The bifactor structure for the APNE was confirmed (positive and negative expectations toward alcohol drinking), with adequate goodness-of-fit (RMSEA = 0.052, CFI = 0.936, TLI = 0.914, and SRMR = 0.075). Multi-group modeling showed invariance by sex (p = .543) and age (p = .395) for the measurement coefficients. High correlations with external measures of alcohol use/abuse and discriminant capacity to identify harmful drinking were obtained. Compared to men, women reported higher mean scores in the negative expectations factor (p = .003). Polynomial linear trends showed that the likelihood of positive expectations toward alcohol decreased with age, while negative expectations increased. The APNE is a brief, reliable, valid, and accurate tool to assess positive and negative expectations toward alcohol consumption in college students. Tools like the APNE can support policymakers to make informed decisions about the implementation of prevention and treatment programs targeted at this segment of the population, the development of personalized alcohol programs, and the reappraisal of public campaigns.

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Subjective happiness interrupts the association between alcohol expectancies and alcohol consumption among reserve-dwelling first nation adolescents.

Schick¹,

Todi²,

Spillane³

2022

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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North American Indigenous (NAI) youth suffers disproportionately from consequences associated with alcohol use. Previous research has found that positive alcohol expectancies are robustly related to alcohol consumption among NAI youth and that changes in alcohol consumption are associated with concurrent changes in happiness. However, no work to date has examined the relation between happiness and alcohol expectancies, or the influence of happiness on the association between alcohol expectancies and alcohol consumption. First Nation adolescents between the ages of 11 and 18 living on a rural reserve in Eastern Canada (N = 106, M age = 14.6 years, 50.0% female) completed a pencil-and-paper survey regarding their subjective happiness, positive alcohol expectancies, and alcohol consumption. Moderation analyses revealed a significant main effect of subjective happiness (b = −.10, p < .001) but not alcohol expectancies (b = .02, p = .14) on alcohol consumption. The interaction of alcohol expectancies and subjective happiness was significant, (b = −.01, p = .002). Analysis of simple slopes revealed that the effect of alcohol expectancies on alcohol consumption was significant for those reporting low (b = .07, p = .001), but not high levels of subjective happiness (b = −.02, p = .25). Results of the present study provide preliminary support for the utility of positive psychological interventions aiming to increase adolescent’s subjective happiness to indirectly target alcohol consumption. Future work should test the effectiveness of such interventions and aim to replicate these findings in larger samples.

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Importance of alcohol-related expectations and emotional expressivity for prediction of motivation to refuse alcohol in alcohol-dependent patients

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Socioemotional predictors of motivation for abstinence in alcohol addicts

Socioemotional predictors of motivation for abstinence in alcohol addicts

Assessing Alcohol Expectations in University Students: the APNE Scale

Subjective happiness interrupts the association between alcohol expectancies and alcohol consumption among reserve-dwelling first nation adolescents.

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