The natural expression of individual differences in self-reported level of response to alcohol during ecologically assessed drinking episodes.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Low sensitivity to alcohol is a well-established risk factor for alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, little is known about how the low sensitivity phenotype is expressed on a fine-grained, momentary level in drinkers' daily experience.

Objectives

The objective of the study is to evaluate individual differences in subjective states and appraisals of alcoholic beverages during the ascending limb of real-world drinking episodes.

Methods

Social drinkers (N = 398) with varying degrees of alcohol sensitivity as indexed by the Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol form (SRE; Schuckit et al. in Addiction 92:979-988, 1997a) recorded diary entries over a 3-week monitoring period (2576 drinking episodes containing 6546 moments). Hierarchical linear modeling was used t

SUBMITTER: Trela CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4864106 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature