Abstract
This research examined the relationship between self-reported cognitive preoccupation with drinking and self-reported and ad lib measures of alcohol consumption in male and female college students. Fifty undergraduates rated their degree of preoccupation with drinking using the Cognitive and Emotional Preoccupation scale and then participated in an individualized taste-rating task, an unobtrusive laboratory measure for determining ad lib alcohol consumption. Regression results showed that individual differences in emotional preoccupation with alcohol predicted self-reported consumption and actual laboratory alcohol consumption, only for women and not for men. This research shows that emotional preoccupation with alcohol appears to be an important factor in determining rates of drinking in college-age women and may be an important factor in identifying those individuals at risk of future problems with alcohol.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 383-394 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Addiction Research and Theory |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2005 |
Funding
This research was supported by Grant R01 12895 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. We thank Lorraine Collins for providing the Temptation and Restraint Inventory and information regarding its scoring and administration.
| Funders |
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| National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Ad lib consumption
- Alcohol
- Cognitive preoccupation
- Gender difference
- Human
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
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