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Next-day responsibilities attenuate demand for alcohol among a crowdsourced sample of community adults

Miller, B. P., Murphy, J. G., MacKillop, J., & Amlung, M.

Summary

While several studies have examined how class time and internship responsibilities impact demand for alcohol in undergraduate samples, no study has examined this question using more universally applicable responsibilities with a sample of community adults. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the impact of a range of next-day responsibilities on demand for alcohol among a crowdsourced sample of community adults using a hypothetical alcohol purchase task (APT). Community adults (n = 261; 79% White; 60% identified as men; 39% identified as women; and 1% identified as nonbinary) with a mean age of 38.42 recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk rank-ordered eight hypothetical next-day responsibilities across three categories (i.e., work, caregiving, and recreational). Participants first completed a standard APT with no explicit next-day responsibilities, followed by purchase tasks in the context of their two highest ranked responsibilities. All participants needed to pass several stages of attention and data quality checks to be included in the final sample. All observed demand indices (i.e., intensity, breakpoint, Omax, and Pmax) were significantly higher in the no responsibilities condition compared to both the first- and second-ranked responsibility condition (ps < .001); however, there was no significant difference in any demand index between the first- and second-ranked responsibility (p range .65–.91). These results extend prior work by demonstrating engagement with substance-free alternatives may reduce demand for alcohol among community adults.

Journal Name

Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology

DOI

10.1037/pha0000609

Date First Published

September 29, 2022

Publisher

American Psychological Association

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