Development and validation of the Compulsive Substance Use Questionnaire: Attending to substance use automaticity, craving, and continued use despite negative consequences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Compulsivity characterizes an important subtype of substance use disorders (SUDs), but there has been variability in how compulsive substance use is defined and measured. The current study was designed to (1) develop a new measure of substance use compulsivity, (2) validate this scale in a community sample of adults who drink alcohol, and (3) evaluate the association between this new measure of compulsivity and substance use severity. We hypothesize that compulsivity will be characterized by automaticity, craving and insensitivity to negative consequences, and greater substance use severity will be associated with higher levels of substance use compulsivity.

Methods

A preliminary set of items were generated for the novel Compulsive Substance Use Questionnaire (CSU

SUBMITTER: Taghian NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12341498 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature