ArticleAddictive behaviors2012
Latent factor structure of a behavioral economic cigarette demand curve in adolescent smokers.
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Sensitivity of hypothetical purchase task indices when studying substance use: A systematic literature review.Preventive medicine · 2019Pooled it
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- Alcohol demand moderates brief motivational intervention outcomes in underage young adult drinkers.Addictive behaviors · 2019Trial
- Influence of phendimetrazine maintenance on the reinforcing, subjective, performance, and physiological effects of intranasal cocaine.Psychopharmacology · 2019Trial
- Evaluating the utility of the modified cigarette evaluation questionnaire and cigarette purchase task for predicting acute relative reinforcing efficacy of cigarettes varying in nicotine content.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Trial
- Relative reinforcing efficacy of cigarettes as a predictor of smoking abstinence among treatment-seeking smokers.Psychopharmacology · 2016Trial
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- Estimating demand for alternatives to cigarettes with online purchase tasks.American journal of health behavior · 2014Trial
- Machine learning-based computational validation of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment framework in relation to hazardous drinking.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2026Article
- Diagnostic validity of alcohol demand and monetary delay discounting in relation to alcohol use disorder.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
- Current and Projected Cannabis Demand Predict Future Consumption in Young Adults Who Use Cannabis.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2025Article
- The subjective value of social context in people who use cannabis.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Examining the Predictive Utility of Behavioral Economic Demand Indices and Subjective Effects on the Actualized Reinforcing Value of Menthol Cigarettes and Potential Alternatives.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- Expanding on cross-price elasticity: Understanding tobacco product demand and substitution from the cross-price purchase task.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
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Abstract
Behavioral economic demand curves, or quantitative representations of drug consumption across a range of prices, have been used to assess motivation for a variety of drugs. Such curves generate multiple measures of drug demand that are associated with cigarette consumption and nicotine dependence. However, little is known about the relationships among these facets of demand. The aim of the study was to quantify these relationships in adolescent smokers by using exploratory factor analysis to examine the underlying structure of the facets of nicotine incentive value generated from a demand curve measure. Participants were 138 adolescent smokers who completed a hypothetical cigarette purchase task, which assessed estimated cigarette consumption at escalating levels of price/cigarette. Demand curves and five facets of demand were generated from the measure: Elasticity (i.e., 1/α or proportionate price sensitivity); Intensity (i.e., consumption at zero price); O(max) (i.e., maximum financial expenditure on cigarettes); P(max) (i.e., price at which expenditure is maximized); and Breakpoint (i.e., the price that suppresses consumption to zero). Principal components analysis was used to examine the latent structure among the variables. The results revealed a two-factor solution, which were interpreted as "Persistence," reflecting insensitivity to escalating price, and "Amplitude," reflecting the absolute levels of consumption and price. These findings suggest a two factor structure of nicotine incentive value as measured via a demand curve. If supported, these findings have implications for understanding the relationships among individual demand indices in future behavioral economic studies and may further contribute to understanding of the nature of cigarette reinforcement.
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