Impulsivity, Disinhibition, and Risk Taking in Addiction

Reynolds, Elizabeth K.; Collado-Rodriguez, Anahi; MacPherson, Laura; Lejuez, Carl W.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-398336-7.00021-8

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“…Disinhibition is an umbrella term referring to characteristics such as sensation seeking and impulsivity . Sensation seeking and impulsivity are historically studied as closely related traits, and have previously been associated with sexual risk behaviors and drug addiction .…”

Section: Prevalence and Demographicsmentioning

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Sexting Rates and Predictors From an Urban Midwest High School

Gregg¹,

Somers

Pernice

et al. 2018

Journal of School Health

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Section: Prevalence and Demographicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexting Rates and Predictors From an Urban Midwest High School

Gregg¹,

Somers

Pernice

et al. 2018

Journal of School Health

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“…Furthermore, individuals with SUDs and comorbid psychopathology show even greater deficits in emotion regulation [71], and substance use risk is greater among those who experience distress and related psychiatric affective disorders [28]. At the point of disorder, less effective emotion regulation and poorer self-control also predict less successful substance use treatment outcomes, including poorer treatment persistence and increased rates of relapse [67, 72]. …”

Section: Emotion Regulation and Substance Use Riskmentioning

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Adolescent Substance Use and Comorbid Psychopathology: Emotion Regulation Deficits as a Transdiagnostic Risk Factor

Shadur

Lejuez

2015

Curr Addict Rep

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Rates of substance use and comorbid psychopathology peak during adolescence, highlighting the need to identify transdiagnostic risk processes that cut across conditions and elucidate early embedded risk factors for comorbidity across development. The current review highlights emotion regulation deficits as a core transdiagnostic risk factor underlying the development of substance use, addiction, and comorbid psychopathology in adolescence. We present the dual systems model of neurological development to highlight adolescence as a critical period of increased risk for emotion regulation difficulties, corresponding risk behaviors, and psychopathology. We describe malfunction in the neurobiological regulation system underlying the relationship between emotion regulation and risk for addiction and comorbidity. We pull from two established developmental theories including both the externalizing pathway and the internalizing pathway to substance use disorders, which together highlight how early embedded risk in the form of emotion regulation deficits can explain mechanisms underlying the development of addiction and comorbid psychiatric disorders.

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“…At the forefront of these personality risk factors is disinhibition, a term that encapsulates overlapping but unique constructs including impulsivity, sensation seeking, and risk taking propensity (Collado, Felton, MacPherson & Lejuez, 2014; Reynolds et al, 2013). A large body of research has linked high scores in each of these three constructs to adolescent substance use broadly, (e.g., Elkins, King, McGue & Iacono, 2006; Aklin, Lejuez, Zvolensky, Kahler & Gwadz, 2005; Lejuez et al 2007; MacPherson et al 2010; Hittner & Swickert, 2006), but limited research has examined the relationship between disinhibition and adolescent marijuana use specifically.…”

Section: Associations Between Adolescent Disinhibition and Substance Usementioning

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Sex differences in self-report and behavioral measures of disinhibition predicting marijuana use across adolescence.

Felton

Collado

Shadur

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Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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Disinhibition has been consistently linked to substance use across development. Recent research suggests, however, that these relations may be influenced by both sex and measurement approach. The current study examined the moderating effect of sex on the association between behavioral and self-report measures of disinhibition and marijuana use across adolescence. Participants were 115 boys and 89 girls initially evaluated at grade 8 using a laboratory behavioral assessment and self-report questionnaires of disinhibitory variables. Marijuana use was measured annually from grades 9 through 12. Results suggest that boys and girls did not differ on either self-reported or behaviorally assessed levels of disinhibition, and that disinhibition measured using both approaches was associated with increases in marijuana use over time. There was a significant interaction between sex and disinhibition, suggesting that boys (but not girls) who self-reported elevations in disinhibition evidenced greater increases in marijuana use. The current findings add to a growing literature supporting the importance of using multiple methods to assess disinhibition and highlight the critical role of biological sex in understanding these relations.

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Impulsivity, Disinhibition, and Risk Taking in Addiction

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Sexting Rates and Predictors From an Urban Midwest High School

Sexting Rates and Predictors From an Urban Midwest High School

Adolescent Substance Use and Comorbid Psychopathology: Emotion Regulation Deficits as a Transdiagnostic Risk Factor

Sex differences in self-report and behavioral measures of disinhibition predicting marijuana use across adolescence.

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