Albery Ian P, Spada Marcantonio M
Centre for Addictive Behaviours Research, School of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, London, UK.
Centre for Addictive Behaviours Research, School of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, London, UK.
Addict Behav. 2021 Jul;118:106899. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106899. Epub 2021 Mar 9.
Desire thinking (voluntary thinking involving a perseverative focusing on desired target-related memories, images, and information), is an important factor in the experience of drinking urges and cravings. Research has not examined the relationship between desire thinking, behavioural intention and the implementation of that behaviour into action, nor how one's past repeated behaviour in situ (expressed as habit) may moderate these relationships. We employed an ad libitum drinking paradigm to provide indirect measures of in-the-moment drinking behaviours (amount poured [mls] and amount consumed [mls]) in a group of eighty-eight self-defined social drinkers immediately after measuring self-reported drinking habit, drinking-related desire thinking, and general drinking behaviour. Results confirmed the predicted positive relationship between desire thinking and in-the-moment drinking behaviour with the effects increasing as a function of rising drinking habit strength. We also observed a dissociation between desire thinking components (verbal perseveration and imaginal prefiguration) in the moderating effects of habit strength on drinking behaviour. For imaginal prefiguration (thoughts related to construction of mental images of a desired target or of its context for consumption) a direct effect on drinking behaviours was shown. In comparison, the effect for verbal perseveration (repetitive self-talk regarding the need to achieve a desired target) was not shown to independently predict drinking-related behaviour but was significantly moderated by increasing drinking-related habit strength. Future work should formulate the nature of this moderating influence on perseverative goal-directed thinking.
欲望思维（即涉及持续专注于与期望目标相关的记忆、图像和信息的自主思维）是饮酒冲动和渴望体验中的一个重要因素。研究尚未考察欲望思维、行为意图与将该行为付诸行动之间的关系，也未考察一个人过去在实际情境中的重复行为（表现为习惯）如何调节这些关系。我们采用了随意饮酒范式，在测量了88名自认为是社交饮酒者的自我报告饮酒习惯、与饮酒相关的欲望思维和一般饮酒行为后，立即对他们当下的饮酒行为（倒酒量[毫升]和摄入量[毫升]）进行间接测量。结果证实了欲望思维与当下饮酒行为之间预测的正相关关系，且随着饮酒习惯强度的增加，这种影响也会增强。我们还观察到，在习惯强度对饮酒行为的调节作用中，欲望思维的组成部分（言语 perseveration 和想象预构）之间存在分离。对于想象预构（与构建期望目标的心理图像或其消费情境相关的想法），显示出对饮酒行为有直接影响。相比之下，言语 perseveration（关于实现期望目标必要性的重复性自我对话）的影响并未显示能独立预测与饮酒相关的行为，但随着与饮酒相关的习惯强度增加，其影响会显著受到调节。未来的研究工作应阐明这种对持续目标导向思维的调节影响的本质。
