Alcohol and drug expectancies as anticipated changes in affect: Negative reinforcement is not sedation

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Title:	Alcohol and drug expectancies as anticipated changes in affect: Negative reinforcement is not sedation
Author(s):	Wiers, R.W.H.J.
Publication year:	2008
Source:	Substance Use & Misuse, vol. 43, iss. 3-4, (2008), pp. 429-444
ISSN:	1082-6084
DOI:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10826080701203021
Publication type:	Article / Letter to editor
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item : http://hdl.handle.net/2066/73565
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Subject:	Developmental Psychopathology
Organization:	SW OZ BSI OGG
Journal title:	Substance Use & Misuse
Volume:	vol. 43
Issue:	iss. 3-4
Page start:	p. 429
Page end:	p. 444
Abstract:	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.