SynthesisAddiction (Abingdon, England)2021
Concurrent validity of the Alcohol Purchase Task for measuring the reinforcing efficacy of alcohol: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Alcohol demand and alcohol use disorder among adolescents and young adults who drink heavily: An exploratory analysis including sex differences.Addictive behaviors · 2026Article
- Comparing behavioral economic and internalizing symptom predictors of drinking trajectories over 3 years during emerging adulthood.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- Association of behavioral economic demand for kratom with DSM-5 use disorder: quantity and likelihood-based demand approaches.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- Hypothetical Purchase Task Metrics Predict Responding on an Incentivized Purchase Task for Full and Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
- Diagnostic validity of alcohol demand and monetary delay discounting in relation to alcohol use disorder.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
- Quantitative Economon Model of Transactions for Drugs and Other Commodities.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Assessment of contextualized reinforcement pathology in a community sample of young adult substance users.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- Choice of alcohol over a natural reward: an experimental study in light and heavy social drinkers.Psychopharmacology · 2025Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsAn early meta-analysis testing the concurrent validity of the Alcohol Purchase Task (APT), a measure of alcohol's relative reinforcing value, reported mixed associations, but predated a large number of studies. This systematic review and meta-analysis sought to: (1) estimate the relationships between trait-based alcohol demand indices from the APT and multiple alcohol indicators, (2) test several moderators and (3) analyze small study effects.
methodsA meta-analysis of 50 cross-sectional studies in four databases (n = 18 466, females = 43.32%). Sex, year of publication, number of APT prices and index transformations (logarithmic, square root or none) were considered as moderators. Small study effects were examined by using the Begg-Mazumdar, Egger's and Duval & Tweedie's trim-and-fill tests. Alcohol indicators were quantity of alcohol use, number of heavy drinking episodes, alcohol-related problems and hazardous drinking. APT indices were intensity (i.e. consumption at zero cost), elasticity (i.e. sensitivity to increases in costs), O
resultsAll alcohol demand indices were significantly associated with all alcohol-related outcomes (r = 0.132-0.494), except P
conclusionsThe Alcohol Purchase Task appears to have concurrent validity in alcohol research. Intensity and O
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