ArticleExperimental and clinical psychopharmacology2025
The Point-Scoring Reaction-Time Task: Evidence for reliability of sensitivity to reward (but not punishment) and links with alcohol involvement.
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- The Point-Scoring Reaction-Time Task: Evidence for reliability of sensitivity to reward (but not punishment) and links with alcohol involvement.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Article
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The Point-Scoring Reaction-Time Task (PSRTT) is designed to measure sensitivity to reward and punishment; the task has empirically demonstrated associations with substance use and related variables. However, like most performance-based paradigms, applications of the PSRTT have not usually applied falsifiable tests of reliability of measurement in the samples used to make inferences. Participants were (n = 150) 18- to 20-year-olds, recruited via social media advertisements and required to report drinking on average on 2+ occasions per month. We apply psychometric tests of reliability of measurement (e.g., confirmatory factor analysis) to the PSRTT and evaluate links with alcohol consumption (past 6-month average frequency, quantity, and maximum drinking) and problem alcohol use via the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire. The task yields an internally consistent sensitivity to reward factor. However, there was no evidence for reliable measurement of sensitivity to punishment. Sensitivity to reward was associated with frequency of drinking (β = .24,
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