Avoidance biases for vaping stimuli among college students with electronic-cigarette use.

Autor: Sklenarik SM; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. Electronic address: skyler.sklenarik@uconn.edu., Potenza MN; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; The Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, Wethersfield, CT 06109, USA; The Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT 06519, USA; Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. Electronic address: marc.potenza@yale.edu., Astur RS; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. Electronic address: robert.astur@uconn.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Addictive behaviors [Addict Behav] 2024 Apr; Vol. 151, pp. 107934. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 10.
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107934
Abstrakt: Previous research has suggested that individuals who smoke demonstrate a behavioral tendency to approach rather than avoid smoking-related stimuli (i.e., approach bias). This study assessed whether 149 undergraduates with varying levels of e-cigarette use demonstrated an approach bias for vaping-related stimuli on an Approach-Avoidance Task (AAT). In contrast to our hypotheses, participants with e-cigarette use demonstrated a significant avoidance bias to vaping-related stimuli, and this effect appeared to be primarily driven by female e-cigarette users. Further, we found that more severe e-cigarette use was associated with numerous adverse outcomes, including reduced quality of life and increased vaping cravings, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, and cannabis use severity. Overall, our findings elucidate various negative impacts of e-cigarette use and suggest a potential role for sex differences in approach-avoidance tendencies toward vaping-related stimuli among young adults.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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