Retrospective self-reports of sensitivity to the effects of alcohol: Trait-like stability and concomitant changes with alcohol involvement

Casey B Kohen; Kellyn M Spychala; Clintin P Davis-Stober; Thomas M Piasecki; Bruce D Bartholow

doi:10.1037/adb0000967

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Retrospective self-reports of sensitivity to the effects of alcohol: Trait-like stability and concomitant changes with alcohol involvement

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Retrospective self-reports of sensitivity to the effects of alcohol: Trait-like stability and concomitant changes with alcohol involvement

Casey B Kohen, Kellyn M Spychala, Clintin P Davis-Stober, Thomas M Piasecki and Bruce D Bartholow

Psychology of addictive behaviors, Vol.38(5), pp.540-551

05/2024

DOI: 10.1037/adb0000967

PMCID: PMC11136885

PMID: 38032623

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Objective: Lower sensitivity to the acute effects of alcohol is known to confer risk for the development of alcohol use disorder. Alcohol sensitivity, or level of response to alcohol’s subjective effects, is heritable but also can change as a result of persistent alcohol exposure (i.e., acquired tolerance). Here, we examined how changes over time in four indices of alcohol involvement affected scores on two validated, retrospective self-report measures of alcohol response—the Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol (SRE) form and the Alcohol Sensitivity Questionnaire (ASQ)—in a sample of emerging adult drinkers. Method: Participants ( N = 173; M age = 19.5 years; 60% assigned female at birth) completed the ASQ, SRE, and measures of alcohol use and problems at two time points separated by a median of 0.77 years (range: 0.30–2.54 years). Results: Multiple linear regression showed that increases in drinking over this period accounted for increases in SRE and ASQ scores (i.e., in reported numbers of drinks needed to experience subjective effects of alcohol). Increased drinking accounted for more variance in the number of drinks needed to experience lighter drinking versus heavier drinking effects, and increases in the number of drinks consumed per occasion had a larger effect than did changes in total numbers of drinks consumed, number of binge-drinking occasions, or drinking-related problems. Conclusions: Findings suggest that both SRE and ASQ capture some stable, trait-like variability in alcohol response as well as some state-dependent, within-person variability in alcohol response acquired through increases in alcohol involvement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

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Title: Subtitle: Retrospective self-reports of sensitivity to the effects of alcohol: Trait-like stability and concomitant changes with alcohol involvement
Creators: Casey B Kohen
Kellyn M Spychala
Clintin P Davis-Stober
Thomas M Piasecki
Bruce D Bartholow
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Psychology of addictive behaviors, Vol.38(5), pp.540-551
DOI: 10.1037/adb0000967
PMID: 38032623
PMCID: PMC11136885
NLM abbreviation: Psychol Addict Behav
ISSN: 0893-164X
eISSN: 1939-1501
Grant note: DOI: 10.13039/100000027, name: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, award: R01 AA025451, T32 AA013526, F31 AA029948
Language: English
Electronic publication date: 11/30/2023
Date published: 05/2024
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984516660002771

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