Trial reportExperimental and clinical psychopharmacology2011
Risk-taking and alcohol use disorders symptomatology in a sample of problem drinkers.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) in Alcohol Research.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2022Pooled it
- A new look at risk-taking: using a translational approach to examine risk-taking behavior on the balloon analogue risk task.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2014Trial
- Cognitive assessment of risk-taking behavior in adults with substance use disorders and internet addiction.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2026Article
- Sex differences in compulsive alcohol drinking phenotypes: implications for decision-making and social behavior in a preclinical model.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Heat stress impacts affective processes and risk-taking behaviour.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The effects of sound in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Role of Risk Taking and Inhibitory Control in Alcohol Use Among Maltreated Adolescents and Nonmaltreated Adolescents.Child maltreatment · 2022Article
- A Bayesian method for measuring risk propensity in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task.Behavior research methods · 2022Article
- Appropriately Tuning Stochastic-Psychometric Properties of the Balloon Analog Risk Task.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Let's Open the Decision-Making Umbrella: A Framework for Conceptualizing and Assessing Features of Impaired Decision Making in Addiction.Neuropsychology review · 2019Review
- The Predictive Value of Impulsivity and Risk-Taking Measures for Substance Use in Substance Dependent Offenders.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Extending the Balloon Analogue Risk Task to Assess Naturalistic Risk Taking via a Mobile Platform.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2018Article
- Early-onset Conduct Problems: Predictions from daring temperament and risk taking behavior.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2017Article
- Individual differences in voluntary alcohol intake in rats: relationship with impulsivity, decision making and Pavlovian conditioned approach.Psychopharmacology · 2017Article
- Dissecting impulsivity and its relationships to drug addictions.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2014Review
- Multidimensional measures of impulsivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder: cannot wait and stop.PloS one · 2014Article
- Not all risk taking behavior is bad: Associative sensitivity predicts learning during risk taking among high sensation seekers.Personality and individual differences · 2013Article
- Differences in neural activation as a function of risk-taking task parameters.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2013Article
- The relationship between impulsivity, risk-taking propensity and nicotine dependence among older adolescent smokers.Addictive behaviors · 2013Article
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Abstract
The relationship between risk-taking behavior and alcohol use disorder (AUD) symptoms is poorly understood. This study employed a modified version of a behavioral measure of risk-taking, the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), to examine its relationship to alcohol use and related symptoms in a community sample of individuals with or at risk for AUD. A total of 158 (71.9% male) participants completed a testing battery that included the BART, a structured diagnostic interview for AUD, and measures of alcohol use and related problems. Estimates of IQ and working memory were assessed as covariates. Results indicated that the relationship between risk-taking propensity, as assessed by the BART, and alcohol problems was significant and negative. Individuals with higher symptom count made fewer pumps per trial on the BART, indicating less risk-taking. It is important to note that this relationship was attenuated when controlling for estimated IQ and working memory span. Further examination demonstrated that IQ and age mediated the relationship between risk-taking propensity and symptom count. The main negative relationship observed between risk-taking on the BART and alcohol use and AUD symptomatology in this sample stands in contrast to the positive relationships observed in adolescent and nonclinical samples. Together, these findings highlight the need to consider development and the course of addiction to fully elucidate the effects of risky-decision making on AUD liability. Furthermore, our results demonstrate the importance of inclusion of neurocognitive covariates (IQ), as well as demographic variables (age) when using this task.
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