Reward Sensitivity and Substance Abuse in Middle School and High School Students

Genovese, Jeremy E. C.; D, Wallace

doi:10.3200/gntp.168.4.465-469

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“…The association between SP and adolescent substance use has been equivocal (e.g., Knyazev, ; Lopez et al., ; O'Connor & Colder, ; O'Connor et al., ). Mixed findings suggest that SP is weakly associated with adolescent substance use and that this relationship is complex and potentially moderated by other factors (Genovese & Wallace, ; Wardell et al., ). Thus, although normative development in SP may not predict adolescent substance use, SP may be predict adolescent substance use via a moderational model.…”

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“…Other studies have shown no association (e.g., Knyazev, ; O'Connor & Colder, ). The inconsistency of the findings suggests that SP is weakly associated with substance use and that this relationship is complex and potentially moderated by other factors (Genovese & Wallace, ; Wardell, O'Connor, Read, & Colder, ). The current study examined potential changes in SP during early adolescence, and how SP is associated with substance use.…”

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Trajectories of Reinforcement Sensitivity During Adolescence and Risk for Substance Use

Colder

Hawk

Lengua

et al. 2012

J of Research on Adolesc

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Developmental neuroscience models suggest that changes in responsiveness to incentives contribute to increases in adolescent risk behavior, including substance use. Trajectories of sensitivity to reward (SR) and sensitivity to punishment (SP) were examined and tested as predictors of escalation of early substance use in a community sample of adolescents (N=765, mean baseline age 11.8 years, 54% female). SR and SP were assessed using a laboratory task. Across three annual assessments, SR increased, and rapid escalation was associated with increases in substance use. SP declined and was unrelated to substance use. Findings support contemporary views of adolescent brain development, and suggest that early adolescent substance use is motivated by approach responses to reward, rather than failure to avoid potential aversive consequences.

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Trajectories of Reinforcement Sensitivity During Adolescence and Risk for Substance Use

Colder

Hawk

Lengua

et al. 2012

J of Research on Adolesc

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“…Some data even suggest that sensitivity to reward, but not punishment, is related to greater risk for alcohol problems, with risk being defined as manifesting an increased heart rate following intoxication (Brunelle et al, 2004). There is other research that suggests that the combination of high sensitivity to reward and low sensitivity to punishment may be particularly relevant to substance abuse (Genovese and Wallace, 2007). Finally, sensitivity to punishment and reward may operate in other ways that affect substance use; for example, Wray, Simons, and Dvorak (2011) found that sensitivity to reward was related to experiencing alcohol-related infractions among heavy drinking college students (e.g., being caught in possession of alcohol while underage) and that these infractions led to decreased drinking at a later time point.…”

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Personality and Addiction: A Critical Review of Assessment Approaches

Miller¹,

Lynam²

2013

The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Addiction Psychopharmacology

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“…Adolescents with higher BAS scores are more likely to have substance use disorders (Genovese & Wallace, 2007). Finally, mood disorders, such as bipolar spectrum disorders, are associated with substance use, impulsivity, and an elevated response to reward (Alloy et al, 2009).…”

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The Role of Social Reward and Corticostriatal Connectivity in Substance Use

Sazhin¹,

Frazier²,

Haynes³

et al. 2020

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This report describes an ongoing R03 grant that explores the links between trait reward sensitivity, substance use, and neural responses to social and nonsocial reward. Although previous research has shown that trait reward sensitivity and neural responses to reward are linked to substance use, whether this relationship is impacted by how people process social stimuli remains unclear. We are investigating these questions via a neuroimaging study with college-aged participants, using individual difference measures that examine the relation between substance use, social context, and trait reward sensitivity with tasks that measure reward anticipation, strategic behavior, social reward consumption, and the influence of social context on reward processing. We predict that substance use will be tied to distinct patterns of striatal dysfunction. Specifically, reward hyposensitive individuals will exhibit blunted striatal responses to social and non-social reward and enhanced connectivity with the orbitofrontal cortex; in contrast, reward hypersensitive individuals will exhibit enhanced striatal responses to social and non-social reward and blunted connectivity with the orbitofrontal cortex. We also will examine the relation between self-reported reward sensitivity, substance use, and striatal responses to social reward and social context. We predict that individuals reporting the highest levels of substance use will show exaggerated striatal responses to social reward and social context, independent of self-reported reward sensitivity. Examining corticostriatal responses to reward processing will help characterize the relation between reward sensitivity, social context and substance use while providing a foundation for understanding risk factors and isolating neurocognitive mechanisms that may be targeted to increase the efficacy of interventions.

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Reward Sensitivity and Substance Abuse in Middle School and High School Students

Cited by 30 publications

References 8 publications

Trajectories of Reinforcement Sensitivity During Adolescence and Risk for Substance Use

Trajectories of Reinforcement Sensitivity During Adolescence and Risk for Substance Use

Personality and Addiction: A Critical Review of Assessment Approaches

The Role of Social Reward and Corticostriatal Connectivity in Substance Use

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