Information-enhancement and goal setting techniques for increasing adaptive motivation and decreasing urges to drink alcohol

Shamloo, Zohreh Sepehri

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.03.023

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“…These participants were more accurate on the tasks and, importantly, reported weaker urges to drink and showed less alcohol-related attention bias. This was replicated in a later study of moderate drinkers (Shamloo and Cox, 2014), where the manipulation increased sense of control, improved task accuracy, and decreased alcohol attention bias. This intervention emphasizes participants’ competence and contingencies, to show the environment as responsive (Skinner, 1996; McKean Skaff, 2007) and, if effectively combined with ABM training, it could compensate for ABM’s limitations.…”

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“…Two simple cognitive tasks, anagrams and concept identification cards (CIC), were used as vehicles for delivering the sense of control intervention elements, as in Shamloo and Cox (2014). Participants receiving the intervention (Groups 1 and 3) completed the tasks with additional instructions: these participants (a) chose the task order, (b) set time goals, (c) received information about the task nature (i.e., that tasks were skills-based and performance could be improved; hints about strategy), and (d) received immediate positive reinforcement.…”

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“…Anagrams were generated as in Shamloo and Cox (2014). Words were extracted from written and spoken English in the British National Corpus (Leech et al, 2001) in three categories: easy (frequency of 40–50 per million), moderate (20–40) and difficult (10–20).…”

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“…Replicating Shamloo and Cox (2014), CIC each depicted a shape varying in five dimensions (e.g., blue or orange color, circle or square shape). In five blocks of five trials, participants were tasked with identifying the dimension common to a pair of cards presented simultaneously (e.g., both striped pattern) by pressing a corresponding key.…”

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“…Attention bias modification (ABM) can decrease the selective visual attention paid to alcohol-related cues but has not been found to reliably reduce alcohol craving. Here, a cognitive intervention to decrease craving by increasing sense of control (Shamloo and Cox, 2014) was used as a complement. We investigated the effects of two such interventions administered singly or in combination.…”

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A Neurophysiological and Behavioral Assessment of Interventions Targeting Attention Bias and Sense of Control in Binge Drinking

Langbridge

Jones

Canales

2019

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Attention bias modification (ABM) can decrease the selective visual attention paid to alcohol-related cues but has not been found to reliably reduce alcohol craving. Here, a cognitive intervention to decrease craving by increasing sense of control (Shamloo and Cox, 2014) was used as a complement. We investigated the effects of two such interventions administered singly or in combination. Participants were 41 binge drinkers (BDs) and 10 non-binge drinkers (NBDs). BDs received either ABM, sense of control training, both interventions, or no intervention, and were compared with NBDs who received no intervention. Groups were assessed on alcohol attention bias change including both reaction times and cue-elicited ERPs (visual dot-probe task), alcohol craving change, and alcohol consumption. BDs exhibited higher attention bias scores than NBDs. ABM had no effect on BDs’ behavioral or electrophysiological markers of attention bias. Sense of control training did not increase personal sense of control but protected against decreased task accuracy and against increased craving. BDs receiving the combined intervention consumed less alcohol in a bogus taste test than participants receiving no intervention. Taken together, the results suggest that ABM procedure may reduce alcohol consumption if combined with sense of control training.

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Assessing current concerns and goals idiographically: A review of the Motivational Structure Questionnaire family of instruments

Klinger¹

2021

J Clin Psychol

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Background There have been two kinds of methods for assessing individuals' motivation and their goal‐striving behavior. The idiographic method obtains respondents' individual descriptions of their behavior or inner experiences. The nomothetic approach uses a standardized questionnaire in which respondents select from a set of alternatives. Idiographic responses provide rich, individualized information, but they make comparisons across different individuals difficult. By contrast, the nomothetic approach loses valuable individualized information, but it readily lends itself to cross‐individual comparisons. Objective The present authors have developed a family of motivational assessment instruments within the framework of the Goal Theory of Current Concerns and individuals' goal pursuits. Each of these instruments is a hybrid version of the idiographic and nomothetic methods. Each one obtains individualized information about each respondent at the start of the assessment, but it then utilizes rating scales that allow comparisons across different individuals to be made. The objective of the present article is to present this family of hybridized instruments for potential use in routine outcome monitoring. Method The method used in this article was to review the development of this family of hybrid assessments instruments over the preceding decades and the research on their psychometric properties and clinical applications. These hybrid tools include the Interview Questionnaire, Work Concerns Inventory, Motivational Structure Questionnaire, and Personal Concerns Inventory and their variants. The review includes only the idiographic‐nomothetic approaches that are based on the Goal Theory of Current Concerns. Results The review reveals that for each instrument, motivational indices are calculated, which have been shown to be valid and reliable. Analyses have also revealed adaptive and maladaptive motivational factors. Conclusions The measures discussed here have proven useful in clinical applications, when, for example, they are used as components of Systematic Motivational Counseling and the Life Enhancement and Advancement Programme for helping individuals improve their motivational structure. Similarly, the measures hold promise for use in routine outcome monitoring.

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Neuroscience of attentional processes for addiction medicine

Fadardi¹,

Rahmani²

2016

Progress in Brain Research

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Information-enhancement and goal setting techniques for increasing adaptive motivation and decreasing urges to drink alcohol

Cited by 8 publications

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A Neurophysiological and Behavioral Assessment of Interventions Targeting Attention Bias and Sense of Control in Binge Drinking

A Neurophysiological and Behavioral Assessment of Interventions Targeting Attention Bias and Sense of Control in Binge Drinking

Assessing current concerns and goals idiographically: A review of the Motivational Structure Questionnaire family of instruments

Neuroscience of attentional processes for addiction medicine

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