SynthesisPsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2021
I am what I am: A meta-analysis of the association between substance user identities and substance use-related outcomes.
Synthesis in Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06261385 (Development of Typology-based Smoking Relapse Prevention), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Development of Typology-based Smoking Relapse Prevention: A Q-methodology and a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effect of identity-related interventions on physical activity- and smoking-related identities and behavior: a mixed-methods systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Writing about the future self to shift drinking identity: An experimental investigation.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2024Trial
- Crossed Pathways: Tobacco-Cannabis Co-Use and Motivation to Quit in Young Adults in France.Drug and alcohol review · 2026Article
- Protocol of a randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of an adapted future possible selves task on drinking identity and hazardous drinking in graduating high school students.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- 'I am a Drinker': A Content, Correlational, and Factor Analytic Study of Measures of Drinker Identity Among College Students.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Investigating cognitive and motivational proximal outcomes in a randomized clinical trial of writing about the future self to reduce drinking.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Normative Perceptions of Sexual Behavior and Alcohol Use among Bisexual Women.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- A Mixed-Methods Examination of Language Used by College Students to Describe Alcohol Recovery.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2023Article
- The nomological network of drinker identity: A scoping review.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
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- Mechanisms of Behavior Change in Substance Use Disorder With and Without Formal Treatment.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2022Review
- Investigating Healthcare Provider Bias Toward Patients Who Use Drugs Using a Survey-based Implicit Association Test: Pilot Study.Journal of addiction medicineArticle
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2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveResearch indicates that a substance user identity (i.e., drinking, smoking, and marijuana identity) is positively correlated with substance use-related outcomes (e.g., frequency, quantity, consequences, and disorder symptoms). The current study aimed to meta-analytically derive single, weighted effect size estimates of the identity-outcome association as well as to examine moderators (e.g., substance use type, explicit/implicit assessment, demographic characteristics, and research design) of this association.
methodRandom effects meta-analysis was conducted on 70 unique samples that assessed substance user identity and at least one substance use-related outcome (frequency, quantity, consequences, and/or disorder symptoms), and provided the necessary information for effect size calculations.
resultsSubstance user identity was found to be a statistically significant moderate-to-large correlate of all substance use-related outcomes examined in the current study (
conclusionsSubstance user identity is clearly an important correlate of substance use-related outcomes and this association is stronger among younger individuals. Additional theoretical, empirical, and intervention research is needed to utilize knowledge gleaned from the current study on the identity-outcome association. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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