Drinking Motives Predict Subjective Effects of Alcohol and Alcohol Wanting and Liking During Laboratory Alcohol Administration: A Mediated Pathway Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Motivational models of alcohol use suggest that individual differences in sensitivity to the acute subjective effects of alcohol play an important role in motivational pathways to alcohol use. However, few studies have examined the link between drinking motives and subjective responses to alcohol. This study investigated the associations of coping and enhancement drinking motives with subjective stimulant and sedative effects during a laboratory alcohol administration session. We also examined whether stimulation and sedation following alcohol administration mediated the relationships between drinking motives and postalcohol ratings of alcohol wanting and liking.

Methods

Heavy episodic drinkers (n = 147, ages 19 to 25) at 2 sites participated in an intravenous alc

SUBMITTER: Wardell JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5198843 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature