How adolescents' working memory abilities relate to their alcohol craving in real-life contexts depends on biological sex.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

We sought to elucidate whether stress, peers, and in vivo (i.e., direct) alcohol cues elicit alcohol craving in daily life among adolescents and to test whether individual variation in working memory function and biological sex alters these associations.

Methods

We leveraged ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine momentary associations between stress, peers, and direct alcohol cues with craving, assessed as "urge to drink alcohol," among 86 male (51.2 %) and female (48.8 %) frequent drinkers (i.e., two or more drinking days per week). Participants were ages 14-24 years (M = 20.7 years, SD = 2.1). Participants completed EMA throughout the day for about one week prior to randomization to a treatment condition for an AUD clinical trial. Pre-registered, secondary a

SUBMITTER: Treloar Padovano H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8026543 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature