The association between meaning in life and harmful drinking is mediated by individual differences in self-control and alcohol value

Copeland, Amber; Jones, Andrew; Field, Matt

doi:10.1016/j.abrep.2020.100258

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“…To our knowledge there are no prospective studies that tracked changes in behavioural economic demand for the drug or changes in the valuation of drug versus non-drug rewards during unassisted recovery from addiction. However in a recent cross-sectional study we demonstrated that individual differences in “meaning in life” (which might loosely correspond to valuations attached to non-drug activities) were negatively associated with scores on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, and this association was partially mediated by indices of behavioural economic demand for alcohol derived from the Alcohol Purchase Task [ 101 ]. Longitudinal studies are required to investigate if unassisted resolution of drinking problems and “maturing out” of alcohol use disorders and other addictions are accompanied by and mediated by changes in economic demand for the drug and the relative valuation of the drug versus competing reinforcers.…”

Section: Changes In the Relative Value Of Drugs Versus Alternative Rementioning

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Relative expected value of drugs versus competing rewards underpins vulnerability to and recovery from addiction

Hogarth

Field

2020

Behavioural Brain Research

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Behavioural economic theories of addiction contend that greater expected value of drug relative to alternative non-drug rewards is the core mechanism underpinning vulnerability to and recovery from addiction. To evaluate this claim, we exhaustively review studies with human drug users that have measured concurrent choice between drugs vs. alternative rewards, and explored individual differences. These studies show that drug choice can be modulated by drug cues, drug devaluation, imposition of costs/punishment and negative mood induction. Regarding individual differences, dependence severity was reliably associated with overall drug preference, and self-reported drug use to cope with negative affect was reliably associated with greater sensitivity to mood induced increases in drug choice. By contrast, there were no reliable individual differences in sensitivity to the effect of drug cues, drug devaluation or punishment on drug choice. These findings provide insight into the mechanisms that underpin vulnerability to dependence: vulnerability is conferred by greater relative value ascribed to drugs, and relative drug value is further augmented by negative affective states in those who report drug use coping motives. However, dependence does not appear to be characterised by abnormal cue-reactivity, habit learning or compulsion. We then briefly review emerging literature which demonstrates that therapeutic interventions and recovery from addiction might be attributed to changes in the expected relative value of drug versus alternative rewards. Finally, we outline a speculative computational account of the distortions in decision-making that precede action selection in addiction, and we explain how this account provides a blueprint for future research on the determinants of drug choice, and mechanisms of treatment and recovery from addiction. We conclude that a unified economic decision-making account of addiction has great promise in reconciling diverse addiction theories, and neuropsychological evaluation of the underlying decision mechanisms is a fruitful area for future research and treatment.

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Section: Changes In the Relative Value Of Drugs Versus Alternative Rementioning

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Relative expected value of drugs versus competing rewards underpins vulnerability to and recovery from addiction

Hogarth

Field

2020

Behavioural Brain Research

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“…This conflict might explain his lifestyle. Indeed, people with meaning in life drink less alcohol (Copeland et al, 2020) and are more likely to be part of support groups for Sexaholics (Wnuk and Charzyńska, 2022). Instead, adults who still look for meaning in life often shown unhealthy drinking behavior (Copeland et al, 2020).…”

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“…Indeed, people with meaning in life drink less alcohol (Copeland et al, 2020) and are more likely to be part of support groups for Sexaholics (Wnuk and Charzyńska, 2022). Instead, adults who still look for meaning in life often shown unhealthy drinking behavior (Copeland et al, 2020). Nevertheless, the impact of environmental factors and social costumes should not be disregarded.…”

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Attitudes toward finitude in the cinema of Federico Fellini: Light on older adults

Coelho-Júnior

Marzetti

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Lukas (2003), por su parte, consideró que las conductas antisociales, especialmente el vandalismo, encontraban su etiología en la carencia de un sentido de vida. Estudios recientes han confirmado una relación entre la frustración existencial y ciertos comportamientos violentos (De la Peña, 2020;DuRant et al, 1994;Senabre et al, 2019), el abuso de sustancias (Csabonyi & Phillips, 2020) y el alcoholismo (Copeland et al, 2020), aspectos que resultan prevalentes entre los delincuentes de carrera (Redondo & Garrido, 2013). Asimismo, se ha observado que los presidiarios suelen contar con mayores indicadores de vacío existencial que la población normativa (Ghelbash et al, 2021;Reker, 1977;Vanhooren et al, 2016), especialmente los reincidentes (Black & Gregson, 1973), y que experimentan más dificultades que las personas sin antecedentes para atribuir un sentido a su existencia (Eryilmaz, 2018).…”

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"El delincuente en busca de sentido". El papel de la dimensión existencial en la carrera delictiva

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Nohales

2022

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Este trabajo analiza de qué manera el sentido de vida, en su presencia o ausencia, contribuye a la continuidad delictiva y a su desistimiento. Se utilizó una metodología cualitativa, basada en la realización de entrevistas de historia de vida a una muestra de 23 delincuentes de carrera. Los resultados indicaron que los participantes se encontraban afligidos por un estado de "vacío existencial" durante el desarrollo de su trayectoria criminal, caracterizado por la frustración y la adicción, que favorecía la persistencia delictiva. Por el contrario, el desistimiento se atribuyó a la toma de consciencia de dicho estado negativo y al descubrimiento de nuevos propósitos vitales significativos –p. ej. familia, religión, ayudar a otras personas, etc.– que reportaban un bienestar y autorrealización que no pudieron ser experimentados durante el pasado criminal.

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The association between meaning in life and harmful drinking is mediated by individual differences in self-control and alcohol value

Cited by 16 publications

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Relative expected value of drugs versus competing rewards underpins vulnerability to and recovery from addiction

Relative expected value of drugs versus competing rewards underpins vulnerability to and recovery from addiction

Attitudes toward finitude in the cinema of Federico Fellini: Light on older adults

"El delincuente en busca de sentido". El papel de la dimensión existencial en la carrera delictiva

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