ArticleExperimental and clinical psychopharmacology2018
Access to environmental reward mediates the relation between posttraumatic stress symptoms and alcohol problems and craving.
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- Intersections between environmental reward availability, loss aversion, and delay discounting as potential risk factors for cigarette smoking and other substance use.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Open trial of a personalized feedback intervention and substance-free activity supplement for veterans with PTSD and hazardous drinking.Journal of behavioral and cognitive therapy · 2022Article
- The role of reward and reinforcement in understanding alcohol use among adults living with HIV in South Africa.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021Article
- Blunted Reward Sensitivity and Trait Disinhibition Interact to Predict Substance Use Problems.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2019Article
- Depressive symptoms as predictors of alcohol problem domains and reinforcement among heavy drinking college students.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Article
- Applying behavioral economic theory to problematic Internet use: An initial investigation.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Article
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Abstract
Symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS) show significant comorbidity with alcohol use, but little is known about the mechanisms that might account for this comorbidity. Deficits in reward functioning have long been implicated in alcohol misuse and more recently in PTS reactions, but no study has examined whether reward deprivation may serve as a transdiagnostic risk factor for comorbid PTS-alcohol misuse. The current cross-sectional study sought to test the behavioral economic hypothesis that reward deprivation would be related to both PTS symptoms and alcohol problems, and would mediate the relation between PTS symptoms and alcohol problems in college students. We recruited a diverse sample of urban college students (N = 203, M
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