Personality, behavioural and affective characteristics of hazardous drinkers Kambouropoulos, Nicolas and Staiger, Petra K. 2007, Personality, behavioural and affective characteristics of hazardous drinkers, Personality and individual differences, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 213-224, doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.06.013. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Personality, behavioural and affective characteristics of hazardous drinkers Author(s) Kambouropoulos, Nicolas orcid.org/0000-0001-9861-3347 Staiger, Petra K. orcid.org/0000-0002-6968-5015 Journal name Personality and individual differences Volume number 42 Issue number 2 Start page 213 End page 224 Publisher Pergamon Place of publication Oxford, England Publication date 2007-01 ISSN 0191-8869 1873-3549 Keyword(s) reinforcement sensitivity theory affect AUDIT hazardous drinkers appetitive motivation aversive motivation Summary The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of appetitive and aversive motivation on hazardous drinking behaviour by drawing on Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST). A between-groups design examined differences between hazardous drinkers and matched controls on self-report and behavioural appetitive and aversive motivation. The relationship between motivational processes and changes in affective states following behavioural task performance was also examined. Data from 27 hazardous drinkers (M = 21.88 years, SD = 3.29) and 27 gender and age matched controls (M = 21.85 years, SD = 4.08) were utilised. The Card Arranging Reward Responsivity Objective Test (CARROT) assessed behavioural appetitive motivation and the computerised Q-TASK provided an index of behavioural aversive motivation. Self-report appetitive and aversive motivation was measured using the Sensitivity to Punishment and Reward Questionnaire (SPSRQ). Brief scales tapping state positive and negative affect were also administered. Hazardous drinkers were significantly higher than controls on self-report but not behavioural measures of appetitive motivation. Results also indicated that hazardous drinkers reported significantly higher levels of negative affect. These data suggest that hazardous drinkers are characterised by high trait appetitive motivation and state negative affect. It was suggested that RST may provide a useful framework for understanding both the appetitive and aversive motivational processes involved in drinking behaviour. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.paid.2006.06.013 Field of Research 170109 Personality, Abilities and Assessment HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2006, Elselvier Ltd Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30007606 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Psychology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 14 Jan 2009, 09:58:36 EST Tue, 20 Jul 2010, 13:58:16 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 08:56:20 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 16:11:45 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 19 times in TR Web of Science Cited 27 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1049 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 29 Sep 2008, 08:54:03 EST