Appetitive And Impulsive: Examining Alcohol Use Via The Motivational And Self-Control Systems

Keywords

Alcohol use; Approach/avoidance; Implicit vs. explicit attitudes; Impulsive/reflective; Motivational systems; Self-control

Abstract

This study examines how trait differences in the appetitive and defensive systems and how automatic, impulsive and deliberate, reflective responses to alcohol cues predict overall alcohol use. By utilizing a measure of trait motivational activation and measures of implicit and explicit attitudes toward alcohol that indicate the self-control system - impulsive vs. reflective - that determines behavior, this research demonstrates that higher trait appetitive system activity, ASA, and positive impulsive/implicit alcohol attitudes independently predict alcohol use, while trait defensive system activation, DSA, and explicit attitudes toward alcohol did not independently predict use.

Publication Date

6-1-2015

Publication Title

Social Science Journal

Volume

52

Issue

2

Number of Pages

258-265

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2014.12.001

Socpus ID

84929267176 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84929267176

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