Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University.
Psychology Department, Georgia State University.
Psychol Addict Behav. 2019 Mar;33(2):139-143. doi: 10.1037/adb0000426. Epub 2018 Nov 19.
Previous research has demonstrated a significant association between alcohol and aggression. However, the precise mechanisms underlying this relationship have yet to be fully elucidated. In the present study, we examined alcohol's effects on an attentional bias toward aggressogenic cues as the first step in a possible mediation model of alcohol-facilitated intimate partner aggression. More specifically, we tested an interactive effect of problematic alcohol use and acute alcohol intoxication on an attentional bias toward anger words. Participants in this study were 249 male and female heavy drinkers from the community with a history of past-year intimate partner aggression perpetration who participated in an alcohol-administration laboratory study assessing the effect of alcohol intoxication on cognitive biases. Multiple linear regression was used to test the proposed moderation model. Acute alcohol intoxication moderated the effect of problematic alcohol use on an attentional bias toward anger, with this effect being stronger for individuals in the alcohol compared to no-alcohol control condition. These findings suggest that problematic drinkers may be more likely to attend to aggressogenic stimuli while acutely intoxicated, relative to when they are sober. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
先前的研究表明，酒精与攻击行为之间存在显著关联。然而，这一关系背后的确切机制尚未完全阐明。在本研究中，我们考察了酒精对攻击诱发线索的注意偏向的影响，这是酒精促进亲密伴侣暴力的可能中介模型的第一步。更具体地说，我们测试了问题性饮酒和急性酒精中毒对愤怒词注意偏向的交互作用。本研究的参与者是来自社区的 249 名有过亲密伴侣暴力行为史的男性和女性重度饮酒者，他们参加了一项酒精管理实验室研究，评估了酒精中毒对认知偏差的影响。多元线性回归用于检验所提出的调节模型。急性酒精中毒调节了问题性饮酒对愤怒注意偏向的影响，对于酒精组与无酒精对照组相比，这种影响在酒精组中更为明显。这些发现表明，与清醒时相比，问题饮酒者在急性醉酒时可能更容易注意到攻击诱发的刺激。
