Alcohol and drug expectancies as anticipated changes in affect: Negative reinforcement is not sedation
Publication year
2008Author(s)
Source
Substance Use & Misuse, 43, 3-4, (2008), pp. 429-444ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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SW OZ BSI OGG
Journal title
Substance Use & Misuse
Volume
vol. 43
Issue
iss. 3-4
Page start
p. 429
Page end
p. 444
Subject
Developmental PsychopathologyAbstract
Goldman and Darkes (2004) argued that all three basic alcohol-expectancy factors can be assessed with a brief questionnaire (AEMax), related to the circumplex model of emotion. I argue that negative reinforcement, one of the three basic expectancy factors, is not assessed with the AEMax. Importantly, negative reinforcement is positively related to problem drinking while sedation (the AEMax-factor that comes closest) is not. In a new dataset (from 119 students, collected in 2002), I demonstrate that sedation is related to negative expectancies and not to negative reinforcement. Different ways to assess all major expectancy factors are proposed.
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