ArticleJournal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry2020
Reward-related attentional capture and cognitive inflexibility interact to determine greater severity of compulsivity-related problems.
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- Recent advances in understanding how compulsivity is related to behavioural addictions over their timecourse.Current addiction reports · 2025Review
- Subjective Assessment of Rdoc-Related Constructs in Addiction and Compulsive Disorders: A Scoping Review.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2024Review
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- Examining the unique relationships between problematic use of the internet and impulsive and compulsive tendencies: network approach.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Understanding the shift to compulsion in addiction: insights from personality traits, social factors, and neurobiology.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Cognitive inflexibility, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and traits and poor post-pandemic adjustment.Neuroscience applied · 2024Review
- A Novel, Expert-Endorsed, Neurocognitive Digital Assessment Tool for Addictive Disorders: Development and Validation Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Using event-related potentials to characterize inhibitory control and self-monitoring across impulsive and compulsive phenotypes: a dimensional approach to OCD.CNS spectrums · 2023Article
- The COVID-19 pandemic and problematic usage of the internet: Findings from a diverse adult sample in South Africa.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
- The Moderating Role of Psychological Flexibility on the Association between Distress-Driven Impulsivity and Problematic Internet Use.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Role of preexisting inhibitory control deficits vs. drug use history in mediating insensitivity to aversive consequences in a rat model of polysubstance use.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- The Applicability of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Brain sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesNeurocognitive processes are key drivers of addictive and compulsive disorders. The current study examined whether reward-related attentional capture and cognitive inflexibility are associated with impulsive and/or compulsive personality traits, and whether these cognitive characteristics interact to predict greater compulsivity-related problems across obsessive-compulsive and drinking behaviors.
methodsOne-hundred and seventy-three participants (mean age = 34.5 years, S.D = 8.4, 42% female) completed an online visual search task to measure reward-related attentional capture and its persistence following reversal of stimulus-reward contingencies. Participants also completed questionnaires to assess trait impulsivity, compulsivity, alcohol use, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors.
resultsGreater reward-related attentional capture was associated with trait compulsivity, over and above all impulsivity dimensions, while greater cognitive inflexibility was associated with higher negative urgency (distress-elicited impulsivity). Reward-related attentional capture and cognitive inflexibility interacted to predict greater compulsivity-related problems among participants who reported obsessive-compulsive behaviors in the past month (n = 57) as well as current drinkers (n = 88). Follow-up analyses showed that, for OCD behaviors, this interaction was driven by an association between higher reward-related attentional capture and more problematic behaviors among cognitively inflexible participants only. For drinking, the same pattern was seen, albeit at trend level. LIMITATIONS: This study includes a non-clinical, online sample and is cross-sectional, thus its findings need to be interpreted with these limitations in mind.
conclusionsReward-related attentional capture and cognitive flexibility are related to trait compulsivity and impulsivity (negative urgency) respectively, and interact to determine more problematic behaviors.
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