The Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire: an instrument for the assessment of adolescent and adult alcohol expectancies.

Brown, Sandra A.; Christiansen, Bruce A.; Goldman, Mark S.

doi:10.15288/jsa.1987.48.483

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“…The Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire -Adolescent (AEQ-A; Brown, Christiansen & Goldman, 1987) measured alcohol expectancies across seven scales; cognitive and motor impairment, increased arousal, relaxation and tension reduction, global positive changes, changes in social behaviour, improved cognition and motor ability and sexual enhancement. Participants are asked to respond to statements about the effects of alcohol use in general terms, meaning the questionnaire can be used with adolescents irrespective of their personal alcohol use.…”

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Alcohol attention bias in adolescent social drinkers: an eye tracking study

2015

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Rationale: Previous research on attention bias in non-dependant social drinkers has focused on adult samples with limited focus on the presence of attention bias for alcohol cues in adolescent social drinkers.Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the presence of alcohol attention bias in adolescents and the relationship of this cognitive bias to alcohol use and alcohol related expectancies.Methods: Attention bias in adolescent social drinkers and abstainers was measured using an eye tracker during exposure to alcohol and neutral cues. Questionnaires measured alcohol use and explicit alcohol expectancies.Results: Adolescent social drinkers spent significantly more time fixating to alcohol stimuli compared to controls. Total fixation time to alcohol stimuli varied in accordance with level of alcohol consumption and was significantly associated with more positive alcohol expectancies. No evidence for automatic orienting to alcohol stimuli was found for adolescent social drinkers.Conclusion: Attention bias in adolescent social drinkers appears to be underpinned by controlled attention suggesting that whilst participants in this study displayed alcohol attention bias comparable to that reported in adult studies the bias has not developed to the point of automaticity.Initial fixations appeared to be driven by alternative attentional processes which are discussed further.

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Alcohol attention bias in adolescent social drinkers: an eye tracking study

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“…As can be seen in Table 1, daily alcohol consumption was much higher in the patient group than in control group. We also administered the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ), a measure of the extent to which an individual beliefs that alcohol consumption will serve certain functions or result in desirable consequences (Brown et al, 1987;Vautier and Moncany, 2008) and the Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS), a questionnaire that measures cognitive aspects of alcohol craving (Ansseau et al, 2000;Anton et al, 1995Anton et al, , 1996. In comparison to participants from the control group, abstaining alcohol-dependent patients experienced much more alcohol craving and expected more desirable consequences after alcohol consumption (see Table 1).…”

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On the predictive validity of automatically activated approach/avoidance tendencies in abstaining alcohol-dependent patients

Spruyt

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Tibboel

et al. 2013

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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“…Participants also completed psychometric assessments of depressive symptoms (Quick Inventory for Depressive Symptomatology; QIDS; Rush et al, 2003), impulsivity (Barratt Impulsiveness Scale; BIS-11; Patton et al, 1995), neuroticism (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire's Neuroticism subscale; EPQ-N; Eysenck et al, 1985), intelligence (Raven et al, 1998), and positive alcohol expectancies (AEQ; Brown et al, 1987). The AEQ is a true-false questionnaire composed of statements about the effects of alcohol (eg, 'Alcohol can transform my personality') that correspond to six expectancy subscalesFglobal positive changes, sexual enhancement, social and physical pleasure, social assertiveness, relaxation, arousal/aggressionFthe reliability and internal consistency of which have been demonstrated previously (Goldman et al, 1997).…”

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“…Finally, alcohol consumption is also influenced by beliefs about its cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects (Brown, 1985;Christiansen et al, 1989), and expectations are known to influence both responses to acute alcohol and the amount of alcohol consumed (Brown et al, 1987). Alcohol-related expectancies may be especially prominent during the adolescent years, contributing to subsequent alcohol misuse and dependence (Brown, 1985).…”

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“…Alcohol-related expectancies may be especially prominent during the adolescent years, contributing to subsequent alcohol misuse and dependence (Brown, 1985). Therefore, we also asked our participants to complete the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ; Brown et al, 1987) to identify whether individuals with the BPP have heightened expectancies about the positive consequences of alcohol consumption.…”

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Reduced Subjective Response to Acute Ethanol Administration Among Young Men with a Broad Bipolar Phenotype

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Doherty

Wakeley

et al. 2012

Neuropsychopharmacol

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Elevated lifetime prevalence rates of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are a feature of bipolar disorder (BD). Individuals at-risk for AUDs exhibit blunted subjective responses to alcohol (low levels of response), which may represent a biomarker for AUDs. Thus, individuals atrisk for BD may exhibit low responses to alcohol. Participants were 20 unmedicated adult males who reported high rates of hypomanic experiences (bipolar phenotype participants; BPPs), aged 18 to 21 years, and 20 healthy controls matched on age, gender, IQ, BMI, and weekly alcohol intake. Subjective and pharmacokinetic responses to acute alcohol (0.8 g/kg) vs placebo administration were collected in a randomized, double-blind, cross-over, placebo-controlled, within-subjects design. BPP participants reported significantly lower subjective intoxication effects ('feel high': F ¼ 14.2, p ¼ 0.001; 'feel effects': F ¼ 8.1, p ¼ 0.008) across time, but did not differ in their pharmacokinetic, stimulant, or sedative responses. Paradoxically, however, the BPP participants reported significantly higher expectations of the positive effects of alcohol than controls. Our results suggest that unmedicated young males with previous hypomanic experiences exhibit diminished subjective responses to alcohol. These blunted alcohol responses are not attributable to differences in weekly alcohol intake, pharmacokinetic effects (eg, absorption rates), or familial risk of AUDs. These observations suggest that the dampened intoxication may contribute to the increased rates of alcohol misuse in young people at-risk for BD, and suggest possible shared etiological factors in the development of AUDs and BD.

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The Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire: an instrument for the assessment of adolescent and adult alcohol expectancies.

Cited by 719 publications

References 29 publications

Alcohol attention bias in adolescent social drinkers: an eye tracking study

Alcohol attention bias in adolescent social drinkers: an eye tracking study

On the predictive validity of automatically activated approach/avoidance tendencies in abstaining alcohol-dependent patients

Reduced Subjective Response to Acute Ethanol Administration Among Young Men with a Broad Bipolar Phenotype

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