The prospective interactive effects of alcohol expectancies and subjective response on future drinking behavior.

ABSTRACT: Although alcohol expectancies and subjective response are independent predictors of drinking, social-cognitive theory suggests that expectancies may distort one's subjective response, creating discrepancies between expected and actual alcohol effects. A recent cross-sectional study found that unmet expectancies (using difference scores) were associated with heavier drinking. However, cross-sectional data cannot establish temporal precedence, and using difference scores ignores important conditional main effects. As such, the current study sought to evaluate how expectancy-subjective response discrepancies predict future drinking using prospective data and an interaction approach. Participants (N = 258) were randomly assigned to consume alcohol (target BAC = .08%) within a placebo-co

SUBMITTER: Waddell JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9973751 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature