Palfai Tibor P, Kantner Carl K, Tahaney Kelli D
Boston University, USA.
Boston University, USA.
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2016 Mar;50:135-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.07.002. Epub 2015 Jul 6.
Previous work has shown that automatic alcohol-action associations, assessed by the Implicit Association Test (IAT), may play a role in hazardous drinking patterns. The majority of alcohol-related IATs have been constructed using verbal stimuli, and even those who have used pictorial stimuli have only represented beverage categories with pictures. To assess implicit appetitive responses among a broader population of alcohol users, such as those who experience limitations reading and understanding English, there may be utility in the development of an IAT that utilizes only non-verbal stimuli.
The current study presents an initial effort to develop such a task and examine its association with drinking. One hundred and fifty-three university students participated individually in a laboratory study in which they first completed a pictorial alcohol-specific approach/avoid IAT, followed by self-report measures of drinking.
As hypothesized, negative binomial regression analyses showed that IAT scores predicted the number of heavy drinking episodes and typical number of drinks per occasion.
The use of a university student sample for this initial study represents an important limitation of this work, which should be addressed in future research.
These findings provide initial evidence for the potential use of non-verbal IATs to assess alcohol-related implicit cognition among adults. Implications for the assessment of hazardous drinking behavior across populations are discussed.
先前的研究表明，通过内隐联想测验（IAT）评估的自动酒精行为关联可能在危险饮酒模式中起作用。大多数与酒精相关的IAT是使用言语刺激构建的，即使是那些使用图片刺激的研究，也只是用图片来表示饮料类别。为了评估更广泛的酒精使用者群体中的内隐偏好反应，比如那些在阅读和理解英语方面有困难的人，开发一种仅使用非言语刺激的IAT可能会有帮助。
本研究初步尝试开发这样一项任务，并检验其与饮酒的关联。153名大学生分别参与了一项实验室研究，他们首先完成了一项针对酒精的特定接近/回避的图片IAT，然后进行饮酒的自我报告测量。
如假设的那样，负二项回归分析表明，IAT分数可预测重度饮酒发作次数和每次饮酒的典型量。
本初步研究使用大学生样本是这项工作的一个重要局限性，未来研究应加以解决。
这些发现为使用非言语IAT评估成年人中与酒精相关的内隐认知的潜在用途提供了初步证据。讨论了对不同人群危险饮酒行为评估的意义。
