ArticleAddictive behaviors2013
Affect and craving: positive and negative affect are differentially associated with approach and avoidance inclinations.
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- Craving mediates the association between affect and substance use in daily life among individuals with substance use disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026Article
- Does treatment status matter? An examination of daily approach and avoidance inclinations predicting drinking in individuals diagnosed with alcohol use disorder.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
- Automated Facial Emotion Recognition System Detects Altered Emotional Processing During Craving Induction in Individuals with Substance Use Disorder.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Using behavioral economics to understand reinforcement mechanisms of loss-of-control eating: An ecological momentary assessment approach.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Ecological momentary assessment and mediation analyses reveal relationships between affect, craving, and substance use in daily life.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Integrating maintaining theories for addiction and binge-eating pathology: A review of affective and reward-based theories.Clinical psychology review · 2025Review
- Age moderates the association of optimism on craving during substance use disorder treatment.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- Effects of Acute Exercise on Affect in Females with Substance Use Disorder.International journal of exercise science · 2023Article
- Examining Within- and Between-Person Facets of Negative Affect and Associations with Daily Craving Among Young Adults in Substance Use Disorder Recovery.Addiction research & theory · 2023Article
- Examining the effect of exercise on the relationship between affect and cravings among smokers engaged in cessation treatment.Addictive behaviors · 2022Article
- Cigarette-specific disgust aroused by smoking warning images strengthens smokers' inhibitory control under smoking-related background in Go/NoGo task.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Is Virtual Reality Cue Exposure a Promising Adjunctive Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder?Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Determinants of Cue-Elicited Alcohol Craving and Perceived Realism in Virtual Reality Environments among Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Attentional Bias, Alcohol Craving, and Anxiety Implications of the Virtual Reality Cue-Exposure Therapy in Severe Alcohol Use Disorder: A Case Report.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Modulation of Attentional Bias to Drug and Affective Cues by Therapeutic and Neuropsychological Factors in Patients With Opioid Use Disorder on Methadone Maintenance Therapy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Pictures Library of Smoking Cravings: Development and Verification of Smokers and Non-smokers.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Predictors of Changes in Alcohol Craving Levels during a Virtual Reality Cue Exposure Treatment among Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Dampening of Positive Affect Predicts Substance Use During Partial Hospitalization.Cognitive therapy and research · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundResearch on reactivity to alcohol and drug cues has either ignored affective state altogether or has focused rather narrowly on the role of negative affect in craving. Moreover, until recently, the relevant analyses of affect and craving have rarely addressed the ambivalence often associated with craving itself. The current study investigated how both negative and positive affect moderate approach and avoidance inclinations associated with cue-elicited craving in a clinical sample diagnosed with substance use disorders.
methodsOne hundred forty-four patients (age range of 18-65, mean 42.0; n=92 males) were recruited from an inpatient detoxification unit for substance abuse. Participants completed a baseline assessment of both positive and negative affect prior to completing a cue-reactivity paradigm for which they provided self-report ratings of inclinations to approach (use) and avoid (not use) alcohol, cigarettes, and non-psychoactive control substances (food and beverages).
resultsParticipants with elevated negative affect reported significantly higher approach ratings for cigarette and alcohol cues, whereas those high in positive affect showed significantly higher levels of avoidance inclinations for both alcohol and cigarette cues and also significantly lower approach ratings for alcohol cues, all relative to control cues.
conclusionsResults for negative affect are consistent with previous cue reactivity research, whereas results for positive affect are unique and call attention to its clinical potential for attenuating approach inclinations to substance use cues. Further, positive affect was related to both approach and avoidance inclinations, underscoring the utility of a multidimensional conceptualization of craving in the analysis.
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