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Nance M, Stetsiv K, McNamara IA, Carpenter RW, Hepp J. Acute, Chronic, and Everyday Physical Pain in Borderline Personality Disorder. Curr Psychiatry Rep 2024; 26:240-248. [PMID: 38598062 PMCID: PMC11082044 DOI: 10.1007/s11920-024-01498-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Physical pain is an underrecognized area of dysregulation among those with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Disturbances are observed within the experience of acute, chronic, and everyday physical pain experiences for people with BPD. We aimed to synthesize research findings on multiple areas of dysregulation in BPD in order to highlight potential mechanisms underlying the association between BPD and physical pain dysregulation. RECENT FINDINGS Potential biological mechanisms include altered neural responses to painful stimuli within cognitive-affective regions of the brain, as well as potentially low basal levels of endogenous opioids. Emotion dysregulation broadly mediates dysregulation of physical pain. Certain psychological experiences may attenuate acute physical pain, such as dissociation, whereas others, such as negative affect, may exacerbate it. Social challenges between patients with BPD and healthcare providers may hinder appropriate treatment of chronic pain. Dysregulated physical pain is common in BPD and important in shaping health outcomes including elevated BPD symptoms, chronic pain conditions, and risk for problematic substance use.
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- Melissa Nance
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Central Institute of Mental Health, Heidelberg University, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Germany.
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McNamara IA, Nance M, Lane SP, Trela CJ, Wood PK, Piasecki TM, Trull TJ, Carpenter RW. Trait impulsivity moderates rate of alcohol consumption in daily life. Addict Behav 2024; 152:107976. [PMID: 38320391 PMCID: PMC11082914 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.107976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2023] [Revised: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Rate of alcohol consumption, the speed with which people drink, has been linked to a range of outcomes, including alcohol use disorder symptoms and increased positive affect. However, minimal work has identified who is most likely to drink at elevated rates. Impulsivity is associated with increased attention to positive reinforcers specifically (e.g., positive affect). We therefore examined whether people higher in trait impulsivity engage in faster consumption during drinking episodes. METHODS Participants were current drinkers (N = 113; 54 people with borderline personality disorder [BPD], a disorder that involves elevated impulsivity, and 59 community people) who completed a 21-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA) protocol. Multilevel models of drinking episodes (Nobservations = 3,444) examined whether self-reported trait impulsivity, measured at baseline, was associated with faster rise in estimated blood alcohol concentration (eBAC) at each follow-up period. RESULTS All UPPS sub-scales were associated with faster rise in eBAC across a drinking episode. In a multivariate model including all sub-scales as simultaneous predictors, sensation seeking and (lack of) perseverance were independently positively associated with rate of consumption. Additional analyses indicated that greater negative urgency and sensation seeking were associated with faster rises in eBAC in participants with BPD, relative to community comparisons. CONCLUSION In a sample that captured a wide spectrum of impulsivity, greater impulsivity was associated with drinking alcohol at a faster rate. People higher in sensation seeking and (lack of) perseverance may be prone to drink at faster rates out of a desire to maximize the hedonic effects of alcohol. PUBLIC SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT This study finds that people who are more impulsive tend to drink alcohol faster, putting them at greater risk for negative consequences. This may explain, in part, why impulsivity is linked to experiencing alcohol-related problems.
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- Ian A McNamara
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA.
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, USA
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- Alert Counseling & Therapy PLLC, 700 N Green St., STE 103, Chicago, IL 60642, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA
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Secrest S, Miller-Matero LR, Chrusciel T, Salas J, Sullivan MD, Zabel C, Lustman P, Ahmedani B, Carpenter RW, Scherrer JF. Baseline Characteristics From a New Longitudinal Cohort of Patients With Noncancer Pain and Chronic Opioid Use in the United States. J Pain 2024; 25:984-999. [PMID: 37907114 PMCID: PMC10960712 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2023.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2023] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/22/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
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Retrospective cohort studies have consistently observed that long-term prescription opioid use is a risk factor for new major depressive episodes. However, prospective studies are needed to confirm these findings and establish evidence for causation. The Prescription Opioids and Depression Pathways cohort study is designed for this purpose. The present report describes the baseline sample and associations between participant characteristics and odds of daily versus nondaily opioid use. Second, we report associations between participant characteristics and odds of depression, dysthymia, anhedonia, and vital exhaustion. Patients with noncancer pain were eligible if they started a new period of prescription opioid use lasting 30 to 90 days. Participants were 54.8 (standard deviation ± 11.3) years of age, 57.3% female and 73% White race. Less than college education was more common among daily versus nondaily opioid users (32.4% vs 27.3%; P = .0008), as was back pain (64.2% vs 51.3%; P < .0001), any nonopioid substance use disorder (12.8% vs 4.8%; P < .0001), and current smoking (30.7% vs 18.4% P < .0001). High pain interference (50.9% vs 28.4%; P < .0001) was significantly associated with depression, as was having more pain sites (6.9 ± 3.6 vs 5.7 ± 3.6; P < .0001), and benzodiazepine comedication (38.2% vs 23.4%; P < .0001). High pain interference was significantly more common among those with anhedonia (46.8% vs 27.4%; P < .0001), and more pain sites (7.0 ± 3.7 vs 5.6 ± 3.6; P < .0001) were associated with anhedonia. Having more pain sites (7.9 ± 3.6 vs 5.5 ± 3.50; P < .0001) was associated with vital exhaustion, as was back pain (71.9% vs 56.8%; P = .0001) and benzodiazepine comedication (42.8% vs 22.8%; P < .0001). Patients using prescription opioids for noncancer pain have complex pain, psychiatric, and substance use disorder comorbidities. Longitudinal data will reveal whether long-term opioid therapy leads to depression or other mood disturbances such as anhedonia and vital exhaustion. PERSPECTIVE: This study reports baseline characteristics of a new prospective, noncancer pain cohort study. Risk factors for adverse opioid outcomes were most common in those with depression and vital exhaustion and less common in dysthymia and anhedonia. Baseline data highlight the complexity of patients receiving long-term opioid therapy for noncancer pain.
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- Scott Secrest
- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1008 S. Spring, St. Louis, MO. 63110 U.S.A
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- Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research and Behavioral Health Services, Henry Ford Health, One Ford Place, Detroit, MI. 48202
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1008 S. Spring, St. Louis, MO. 63110 U.S.A
- Advanced HEAlth Data (AHEAD) Research Institute, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 3545 Lafayette Ave, 4 Floor, St. Louis, MO. 63104 U.S.A
- Department of Health and Clinical Outcomes Research, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 3545 Lafayette Ave, 4th Floor, St. Louis, MO. 63104 U.S.A
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1008 S. Spring, St. Louis, MO. 63110 U.S.A
- Advanced HEAlth Data (AHEAD) Research Institute, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 3545 Lafayette Ave, 4 Floor, St. Louis, MO. 63104 U.S.A
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle WA. 98195
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- Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research and Behavioral Health Services, Henry Ford Health, One Ford Place, Detroit, MI. 48202
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4320 Forest Park Blvd, Suite 301, St. Louis, MO. 63108
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- Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research and Behavioral Health Services, Henry Ford Health, One Ford Place, Detroit, MI. 48202
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1 University Blvd., Saint Louis, MO. 63121
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1008 S. Spring, St. Louis, MO. 63110 U.S.A
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1438 South Grand Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63104 U.S.A
- Advanced HEAlth Data (AHEAD) Research Institute, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 3545 Lafayette Ave, 4 Floor, St. Louis, MO. 63104 U.S.A
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Acuff SF, Padovano HT, Carpenter RW, Emery NN, Miranda R. Effects of social drinking context on subjective effects, affect, and next-day appraisals in the natural environment. Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken) 2024; 48:755-765. [PMID: 38439602 PMCID: PMC11015969 DOI: 10.1111/acer.15286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024]
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BACKGROUND Drinking commonly occurs in social settings and may bolster social reinforcement. Laboratory studies suggest that subjective effects and mood are mechanisms through which the social context influences alcohol consumption. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) may be useful for extending these findings to the natural environment. This pre-registered secondary analysis of EMA data investigated the influence of the social environment on: (1) stimulating and sedating subjective effects of alcohol, (2) contentedness and negative affect, and (3) next-day evaluations of the drinking occasion. METHODS Nontreatment seeking adults reporting past-month heavy drinking (N = 131; Mage = 28.09; 42% female) completed 7 days of EMA (in the morning, at random, and following drinking prompts), which included questions on their social context (drinking in the presence of known others or alone), contemporaneous stimulating and sedating effects, contentedness and negative affect, alcohol consumption, and next-day evaluations of a prior day's drinking event (how satisfying/pleasant was drinking). We used multi-level models in SAS 9.4 M7 software to examine relations among the variables. RESULTS Contemporaneous subjective effects (stimulating or sedating), negative affect, and contentedness did not significantly depend on the social context. For next-day evaluations of pleasure/satisfaction from drinking, context effects were dependent on consumption totals. As the total number of standard drinks consumed increased, recollections of pleasure/satisfaction were higher when drinking had occurred with others, relative to alone. At lower consumption totals, next-day evaluations did not appear to depend on social context. CONCLUSIONS When reported contemporaneously, subjective effects and affect do not appear dependent upon the presence of known others. However, heavier drinking events, relative to lighter drinking events, are appraised more favorably the following day when occurring within social contexts.
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- Samuel F. Acuff
- Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, Riverside, RI, USA
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Carpenter RW, Nance M, Frumkin MR, Boissoneault J, Ellingson JM. Use and co-use of alcohol and cannabis following physical pain in the daily life of community adults engaged in regular substance use. Psychol Addict Behav 2024:2024-53571-001. [PMID: 38358657 DOI: 10.1037/adb0000992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Alcohol and cannabis are often perceived as pain-relieving. However, minimal work has examined whether people use and co-use these substances following pain in daily life. METHOD Forty-six adults reporting weekly use of alcohol and/or cannabis completed a 60-day ecological momentary assessment protocol, answering at least four daily reports on their alcohol and cannabis use and pain (nassessments = 10,769 over 2,656 days). We examined whether self-reported pain so far that day (cumulative-average pain) was associated with subsequent alcohol and cannabis use and same-occasion co-use. Models also addressed whether associations differed for initiating versus continuing a use episode. Hypotheses were preregistered. RESULTS A multinomial multilevel model found that cumulative-average pain was associated with a greater likelihood of same-occasion co-use in the continuation phase but not the initiation phase, compared to no use (OR = 1.48,95% CI [1.06, 2.06], p = .023) and alcohol use (OR = 1.52, CI [1.03, 2.26], p = .037). Cumulative-average pain was largely not associated with alcohol-only and cannabis-only use. After alcohol use, greater pain was associated with cannabis use (OR = 1.37, CI [1.11, 1.70], p = .004), but not the reverse. Secondary analyses found greater previous-occasion (not cumulative) pain was associated with initiation of alcohol use and number of drinks, and initiation and continuation of cannabis use, but not number of cannabis hits. CONCLUSIONS Although not all hypotheses were supported, pain was associated with subsequent substance use in this sample engaged in regular substance use and not recruited for chronic pain. Cumulative pain may be particularly related to alcohol-cannabis same-occasion co-use, which may increase the risk of substance use-related problems over time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Ryan W Carpenter
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
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Waddell JT, Carpenter RW, Frumkin MR, McNamara IA, Ellingson JM. Modeling momentary reciprocal associations between negative affect and craving for alcohol and cannabis using dynamic structural equation modeling. Psychol Addict Behav 2024:2024-51638-001. [PMID: 38330353 DOI: 10.1037/adb0000994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Negative reinforcement models suggest that negative affect should predict event-level substance use, however, supporting daily-life evidence is lacking. One reason may be an emphasis in ecological momentary assessment (EMA) research on use behavior, which is subject to contextual and societal constraints that other substance outcomes, such as craving, may not be subject to. Therefore, the present study tested momentary, within-person reciprocal relations among negative affect and craving for alcohol and cannabis in daily life. METHOD Adults (N = 48) completed 60 days of EMA, consisting of four daily reports spanning 7 a.m.-11 p.m. assessing current negative affect and alcohol/cannabis craving. Preregistered analyses used dynamic structural equation modeling to test whether (a) within-person increases in negative affect co-occurred with within-person increases in alcohol and cannabis craving, and (b) within-person increases in negative affect predicted later within-person increases in craving (and vice versa), and (c) relations differed by substance use frequency. RESULTS Within-person increases in negative affect were contemporaneously associated with within-person increases in alcohol and cannabis craving. However, increases in negative affect did not prospectively predict increases in craving, and within-person increases in craving did not prospectively predict within-person increases in negative affect. Within-person relations were not moderated by substance use frequency. CONCLUSIONS Negative affect and craving were associated in community adults. However, results advance a growing body of EMA work suggesting that the association of daily-life negative affect and substance use is, at best, not straightforward. Careful attention is needed to better translate existing negative reinforcement theory to the realities of daily life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
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- Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Stetsiv K, McNamara IA, Nance M, Carpenter RW. The Co-occurrence of Personality Disorders and Substance Use Disorders. Curr Psychiatry Rep 2023; 25:545-554. [PMID: 37787897 PMCID: PMC10798162 DOI: 10.1007/s11920-023-01452-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Despite significant negative outcomes, the co-occurrence of personality disorders (PDs) and substance use disorders (SUDs) continues to be underrecognized, and the mechanisms contributing to this co-occurrence remain unclear. This review summarizes recent work on PD-SUD co-occurrence, with a focus on borderline and antisocial PDs, general substance use patterns among those with PDs, and the association of personality traits with SUDs. RECENT FINDINGS The prevalence of co-occurring PD-SUD is generally high, with estimates ranging depending on the type of PD and SUD, the population assessed, and the sampling methods and measures used. Current theoretical explanations for co-occurrence include shared etiology and predisposition models, with research highlighting the importance of transactional processes. Potential underlying mechanisms include personality traits and transdiagnostic characteristics. Recent research has increased focus on substances besides alcohol, dimensional models of personality pathology, and transactional explanations of co-occurrence, but more research is needed to disentangle the nuanced PD-SUD relationship.
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- Khrystyna Stetsiv
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA.
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Carpenter RW, Hepp J, Trull TJ. Pain before, during, and after nonsuicidal self-injury: Findings from a large web study. J Psychopathol Clin Sci 2023; 132:984-995. [PMID: 37602987 PMCID: PMC10840631 DOI: 10.1037/abn0000853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
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Competing models suggest that physical pain may play an important role in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) via pain onset or pain offset, or that pain may be absent (analgesia). Few studies have tested these models in the same sample or examined factors that could explain differences in NSSI pain experience. We assessed 1,630 individuals with NSSI histories in an online survey. We descriptively examined pain during NSSI and tested preregistered hypotheses that NSSI frequency, NSSI severity, borderline personality disorder (BPD) features, emotional pain, and dissociation during NSSI are associated with experiencing less NSSI pain. Exploratorily, we also tested whether self-punishment motives were associated with less NSSI pain. Almost all participants reported recent and frequent NSSI. Participants were heterogenous in their report of NSSI pain. We found minimal support for analgesia (reported by only 4.3% of participants). More participants reported pain onset than offset, but offset was associated with reductions in emotional pain. Emotional pain was elevated prior to NSSI and decreased significantly during and after NSSI. We found that higher dissociation during NSSI was associated with less NSSI pain. Contrary to hypotheses, NSSI severity, emotional pain prior to NSSI, and self-punishment motives were associated with greater NSSI pain. NSSI frequency and BPD features were not associated with NSSI pain. BPD features interacted with dissociation and emotional pain prior to NSSI. Findings contrast with laboratory pain induction work, suggesting that, though people who self-harm may have heightened pain tolerance, they may seek to self-injure in a manner that results in pain. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Ryan W. Carpenter
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim at Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Miller MB, Carpenter RW, Freeman LK, Dunsiger S, McGeary JE, Borsari B, McCrae CS, Arnedt JT, Korte P, Merrill JE, Carey KB, Metrik J. Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia on Alcohol Treatment Outcomes Among US Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry 2023; 80:905-913. [PMID: 37342036 PMCID: PMC10285676 DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.1971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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Importance Three of 4 adults in treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) report symptoms of insomnia. Yet the first-line treatment for insomnia (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, CBT-I) is often delayed until abstinence is established. Objective To test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of CBT-I among veterans early in their AUD treatment and to examine improvement in insomnia as a mechanism for improvement in alcohol use outcomes. Design, Setting, and Participants For this randomized clinical trial, participants were recruited through the Addictions Treatment Program at a Veterans Health Administration hospital between 2019 and 2022. Patients in treatment for AUD were eligible if they met criteria for insomnia disorder and reported alcohol use in the past 2 months at baseline. Follow-up visits occurred posttreatment and at 6 weeks. Interventions Participants were randomly assigned to receive 5 weekly sessions of CBT-I or a single session about sleep hygiene (control). Participants were asked to complete sleep diaries for 7 days at each assessment. Main Outcomes and Measures Primary outcomes included posttreatment insomnia severity (assessed using the Insomnia Severity Index) and follow-up frequency of any drinking and heavy drinking (4 drinks for women, ≥5 drinks for men; number of days via Timeline Followback) and alcohol-related problems (Short Inventory of Problems). Posttreatment insomnia severity was tested as a mediator of CBT-I effects on alcohol use outcomes at the 6-week follow-up. Results The study cohort included 67 veterans with a mean (SD) age of 46.3 years (11.8); 61 (91%) were male and 6 (9%) female. The CBT-I group included 32 participants, and the sleep hygiene control group 35 participants. Of those randomized, 59 (88%) provided posttreatment or follow-up data (31 CBT-I, 28 sleep hygiene). Relative to sleep hygiene, CBT-I participants reported greater decreases in insomnia severity at posttreatment (group × time interaction: -3.70; 95% CI, -6.79 to -0.61) and follow-up (-3.34; 95% CI, -6.46 to -0.23) and greater improvements in sleep efficiency (posttreatment, 8.31; 95% CI, 1.35 to 15.26; follow-up, 18.03; 95% CI, 10.46 to 25.60). They also reported greater decreases in alcohol problems at follow-up (group × time interaction: -0.84; 95% CI, -1.66 to -0.02), and this effect was mediated by posttreatment change in insomnia severity. No group differences emerged for abstinence or heavy-drinking frequency. Conclusions and Relevance In this randomized clinical trial, CBT-I outperformed sleep hygiene in reducing insomnia symptoms and alcohol-related problems over time but had no effect on frequency of heavy drinking. CBT-I should be considered a first-line treatment for insomnia, regardless of abstinence. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03806491.
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- Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island
- Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island
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- San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, California
- University of California, San Francisco
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- Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital, Columbia, Missouri
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- Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island
- Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island
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Sawant R, Yang S, Carpenter RW. High-Resolution Composition Wave Characterization in Cu-Ti Alloys using Aberration Corrected STEM. Microsc Microanal 2023; 29:1781-1783. [PMID: 37613903 DOI: 10.1093/micmic/ozad067.922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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- Ronit Sawant
- Materials Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- Eyring Materials Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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Carpenter RW, Acuff SF, Meshesha LZ. The Role of Environmental Context and Physical Activity in Prescribed Opioid Use and Pain in Daily Life among Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain. Ann Behav Med 2023; 57:541-550. [PMID: 37000178 PMCID: PMC10465080 DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaac080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Prescription opioids remain a primary treatment option for patients with chronic low back pain. However, little research has examined how patients take opioids in daily life. Behavioral economics suggest that the environmental context may contribute to patients' decisions around opioid use. PURPOSE This study examined the association of self-reported environmental factors and physical activity with likelihood of taking opioids, opioid dosage, and physical pain. METHOD Patients with chronic low back pain on long-term opioid therapy (n = 34) without significant past-year opioid-related problems completed a two-week ecological momentary assessment protocol (nobservations = 1,714). RESULTS Initial multilevel models revealed multiple associations for different specific contexts with opioid use and pain. In models that collapsed specific contexts into categories (where, with whom, doing what), greater occasion-level physical activity was associated with a greater likelihood of taking opioids and greater pain, and being somewhere (v. at home) was associated with taking a smaller opioid dose. At any given occasion, being with someone (v. alone) was associated with taking a larger opioid dose, but patients who spent more time with others over the entire study took fewer opioids overall. Multilevel mediation found that pain did not mediate the association of physical activity and opioid use. CONCLUSION Results suggest that prescribed opioid use in patients with chronic low back pain is not solely determined by pain, but influenced by environmental factors, including physical activity. Psychoeducation regarding environmental factors, including how factors may be associated with both increased and decreased use of opioids, may help patients take fewer opioids more effectively.
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- Ryan W Carpenter
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
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Dora J, Smith MR, Seldin K, Schultz ME, Kuczynski AM, Moss DJ, Carpenter RW, King KM. Exploring associations between affect and marijuana use in everyday life via specification curve analysis. J Psychopathol Clin Sci 2023; 132:461-474. [PMID: 37036695 PMCID: PMC10164094 DOI: 10.1037/abn0000825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/11/2023]
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Although frequently hypothesized, the evidence for associations between affect and marijuana use in everyday life remains ambiguous. Inconsistent findings across existing work may be due, in part, to differences in study design and analytic decisions, such as study inclusion criteria, the operationalization of affect, or the timing of affect assessment. We used specification curves to assess the robustness of the evidence for affect predicting same-day marijuana use and marijuana use predicting next-day affect across several hundred models that varied in terms of decisions that reflect those typical in this literature (e.g., whether to average affect prior to marijuana use or select the affect report closest in time to marijuana use). We fitted these curves to data from two ecological momentary assessment studies of regular marijuana and/or alcohol using college students (N = 287). Results provided robust evidence that marijuana use was slightly less likely following experiences of negative affect and slightly more likely following positive affect. Specification curves suggested that differences in previous findings are most likely a function of the specific emotion items used to represent affect rather than differences in inclusion criteria, the temporal assessment and modeling of affect, or the covariates added to the model. There was little evidence for an association between marijuana use and next-day affect. Overall, our findings provide evidence against the predictions made by affect reinforcement models in college students and suggest that future research should model the associations of marijuana use with discrete emotional states rather than general negative and positive affect. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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Research suggests situational pain may motivate alcohol consumption, suggesting that pain may be an antecedent for problematic drinking behavior. In this pilot project, we assessed the effect of a painful thermal stimulus on drinking topography in a virtual reality bar environment using real alcohol-containing beverages. We also examined psychosocial factors that may account for individual differences in pain as an antecedent for alcohol use. Participants (N = 20, Mage = 25.65 years, 55% female, 15% Hispanic/Latino/a/x) completed a psychosocial screening battery before completing two counterbalanced alcohol self-administration sessions. In each, participants experienced either painful heat (44 °C) or nonnoxious warmth (38 °C). Sip interval (s) and sip volume (g) were measured. Effects of pain on drinking topography were assessed using multilevel models. Multilevel models assessed associations of pain-related changes in topography with hypothesized vulnerability factors. Analyses indicated a significant interaction of pain condition and sex on sip interval (b = -.16.96, p = .015, 95% CI [-30.75, -2.97]), such that painful heat significantly decreased sip interval in men (b = 16.38) but not women (b = -.45). No effect of pain on sip volume was detected (p > .49). Exploratory analyses indicated significant interactions such that the effect of the painful heat condition was stronger in individuals with higher levels of greater negative urgency but the opposite effect for pain catastrophizing. Results suggest acute pain has sex-contingent effects on drinking topography, such that men drank more rapidly while experiencing painful heat. Furthermore, analyses indicated that individuals with greater negative urgency, regardless of sex, may be at elevated risk for hazardous alcohol use when experiencing pain. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health
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Martin RA, Alexander-Scott N, Berk J, Carpenter RW, Kang A, Hoadley A, Kaplowitz E, Hurley L, Rich JD, Clarke JG. Post-incarceration outcomes of a comprehensive statewide correctional MOUD program: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Reg Health Am 2023; 18:100419. [PMID: 36844014 PMCID: PMC9950664 DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Background As opioid overdoses surge, medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) remain underutilized. MOUD is rarely offered in correctional facilities although individuals involved in the criminal justice system have higher rates of OUD and mortality relative to the general population. Methods A retrospective cohort design examined the effect of MOUD while incarcerated on 12 months post-release treatment engagement and retention, overdose mortality, and recidivism. Individuals (N = 1600) who participated in the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) MOUD program (the United States' first statewide program) and were released from incarceration from December 1, 2016, to December 31, 2018, were included. The sample was 72.6% Male (27.4% female) and 80.8% White (5.8% Black, 11.4% Hispanic, 2.0% another race). Findings 56% were prescribed methadone, 43% buprenorphine, and 1% naltrexone. During incarceration, 61% were continued on MOUD from the community, 30% were inducted onto MOUD upon incarceration, and 9% were inducted pre-release. At 30 days and 12 months post-release, 73% and 86% of participants engaged in MOUD treatment, respectively, and those newly inducted had lower post-release engagement than those who continued from the community. Reincarceration rates (52%) were similar to the general RIDOC population. Twelve overdose deaths occurred during the 12-month follow-up, with only one overdose death during the first two weeks post-release. Interpretations Implementing MOUD in correctional facilities, with seamless linkage to community care is a needed life-saving strategy. Funding Rhode Island General Fund, the NIH of Health HEAL Initiative, the NIGMS, and the NIDA.
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- Rosemarie A. Martin
- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- The Center for Health and Justice Transformation, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
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- CODAC Behavioral Healthcare Inc., Providence, RI, USA
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- The Center for Health and Justice Transformation, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
- Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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Stanton K, Watts AL, Levin-Aspenson HF, Carpenter RW, Emery NN, Zimmerman M. Focusing Narrowly on Model Fit in Factor Analysis Can Mask Construct Heterogeneity and Model Misspecification: Applied Demonstrations across Sample and Assessment Types. J Pers Assess 2023; 105:1-13. [PMID: 35286224 DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2022.2047060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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This study builds upon research indicating that focusing narrowly on model fit when evaluating factor analytic models can lead to problematic inferences regarding the nature of item sets, as well as how models should be applied to inform measure development and validation. To advance research in this area, we present concrete examples relevant to researchers in clinical, personality, and related subfields highlighting two specific scenarios when an overreliance on model fit may be problematic. Specifically, we present data analytic examples showing that focusing narrowly on model fit may lead to (a) incorrect conclusions that heterogeneous item sets reflect narrower homogeneous constructs and (b) the retention of potentially problematic items when developing assessment measures. We use both interview data from adult outpatients (N = 2,149) and self-report data from adults recruited online (N = 547) to demonstrate the importance of these issues across sample types and assessment methods. Following demonstrations with these data, we make recommendations focusing on how other model characteristics (e.g., factor loading patterns; carefully considering the content and nature of factor indicators) should be considered in addition to information provided by model fit indices when evaluating factor analytic models.
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University
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Dora J, Piccirillo M, Foster KT, Arbeau K, Armeli S, Auriacombe M, Bartholow B, Beltz AM, Blumenstock SM, Bold K, Bonar EE, Braitman A, Carpenter RW, Creswell KG, De Hart T, Dvorak RD, Emery N, Enkema M, Fairbairn C, Fairlie AM, Ferguson SG, Freire T, Goodman F, Gottfredson N, Halvorson M, Haroon M, Howard AL, Hussong A, Jackson KM, Jenzer T, Kelly DP, Kuczynski AM, Kuerbis A, Lee CM, Lewis M, Linden-Carmichael AN, Littlefield A, Lydon-Staley DM, Merrill JE, Miranda R, Mohr C, Read JP, Richardson C, O’Connor R, O’Malley SS, Papp L, Piasecki TM, Sacco P, Scaglione N, Serre F, Shadur J, Sher KJ, Shoda Y, Simpson TL, Smith MR, Stevens A, Stevenson B, Tennen H, Todd M, Treloar Padovano H, Trull T, Waddell J, Walukevich-Dienst K, Witkiewitz K, Wray T, Wright AG, Wycoff AM, King KM. The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data. Psychol Bull 2023; 149:1-24. [PMID: 37560174 PMCID: PMC10409490 DOI: 10.1037/bul0000387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary and ecological momentary assessment research, it remains unclear whether people consume more alcohol on days they experience higher negative and positive affect in everyday life. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we synthesized the evidence for these daily associations between affect and alcohol use. We included individual participant data from 69 studies (N = 12,394), which used daily and momentary surveys to assess affect and the number of alcoholic drinks consumed. Results indicate that people are not more likely to drink on days they experience high negative affect, but are more likely to drink and drink heavily on days high in positive affect. People self-reporting a motivational tendency to drink-to-cope and drink-to-enhance consumed more alcohol, but not on days they experienced higher negative and positive affect. Results were robust across different operationalizations of affect, study designs, study populations, and individual characteristics. These findings challenge the long-held belief that people drink more alcohol following increases in negative affect. Integrating these findings under different theoretical models and limitations of this field of research, we collectively propose an agenda for future research to explore open questions surrounding affect and alcohol use.
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- Jonas Dora
- University of Washington; Seattle, United States
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- Colorado State University; Fort Collins, United States
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- University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill, United States
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- Hunter College of the City University of New York; New York, United States
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- University of North Texas; Fort Worth, United States
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- Portland State University; Portland, United States
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- University of Wisconsin; Madison, United States
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- University of Maryland; Baltimore, United States
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- University of Washington; Seattle, United States
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- University of Washington; Seattle, United States
- VA Puget Sound Healthcare System; Seattle, United States
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- University of Connecticut; Farmington, United States
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- University of Missouri-Columbia; Columbia, United States
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- Brown University; Providence, United States
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Banks DE, Brown KL, Carpenter RW. Feasibility and acceptability of texting school-aged adolescents to assess daily substance use among community-based black and white youth. Addict Behav 2022; 135:107455. [PMID: 35933943 PMCID: PMC9891662 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Revised: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is well-suited to measure adolescent substance use. Previous research with adolescents, particularly racially minoritized adolescents, has predominantly provided mobile devices to participants as a strategy to reduce structural barriers to technology access. This report examined feasibility and acceptability of a text-message-delivered EMA protocol to adolescents' personal phones. METHODS Non-Hispanic Black and White adolescents aged 14-18 years with mobile phone access and past-30-day substance use were recruited from community settings. Respondents (n = 36; 55.5 % female; 55.5 % White) completed a 14-day diary assessing substance use. RESULTS Respondents completed M = 13.8 (SD = 1.36) diaries for a compliance rate of 93.5 %. Black respondents completed significantly fewer diaries (87.9 %) than White respondents (97.9 %) although compliance rates were high among both groups. Adolescents reported high acceptability of the protocol, with 97.1 % willing to participate again. CONCLUSION Findings suggest text-message-based EMA delivered to personal phones is acceptable and feasible for assessing substance use among adolescents. As the sociodemographic "digital divide" narrows among adolescents, this cost-effective and equitable method becomes more feasible.
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- Devin E Banks
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri - St. Louis, One University Blvd, 325 Stadler Hall, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA.
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri - St. Louis, One University Blvd, 325 Stadler Hall, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri - St. Louis, One University Blvd, 325 Stadler Hall, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA
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Stanton K, Carpenter RW, Nance M, Sturgeon T, Villalongo Andino M. A multisample demonstration of using the prolific platform for repeated assessment and psychometric substance use research. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 2022; 30:432-443. [PMID: 35025585 DOI: 10.1037/pha0000545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The Prolific platform offers a potentially useful and efficient crowdsourcing option for repeated assessment substance use research, including for psychometric research requiring large samples. We present both (a) a series of practical recommendations for using Prolific and (b) data from multiple samples demonstrating Prolific's potential for efficiently collected repeated measures data. First, we present data from a 5-day daily diary protocol. We recruited a large sample (N = 321 at Day 1) screened for a history of self-identified mental health issues and weekly alcohol use. Participant adherence was good (82%) even without in-person contact. Alcohol use patterns conformed to theoretical expectations: Participants were more likely to drink on Fridays and Saturdays than other days, men drank more than women, and higher Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT; Saunders et al., 1993) scores were associated with an increased likelihood of use and more overall drinking on a given day. Second, we present data from 429 Prolific participants screened for a history of mental health issues who completed assessments 2 weeks apart with strong retention (N = 377; 88%). We compare these data with the data from undergraduates (N = 529) to demonstrate Prolific's utility for conducting psychometrically oriented substance use research. Internal consistency estimates for measures from the Prolific data matched or exceeded those from the undergraduate data. Furthermore, measure scores showed strong temporal stability, and factor structures (e.g., AUDIT item-level structures) conformed to theoretical expectations. Collectively, these findings indicate that Prolific can be used successfully for repeated measures data collection. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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Schneider VJ, Bush N, Vitus D, Carpenter RW, Robinson M, Boissoneault J. A virtual reality platform for the measurement of drinking topography. Drug Alcohol Depend 2022; 231:109246. [PMID: 34998252 PMCID: PMC9358601 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND The assessment of alcohol consumption during a drinking bout, known as drinking topography, may help improve understanding of biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying alcohol consumption. However, past studies have been limited by effort-intensive, time-consuming, and error-prone processes involved in collecting, organizing, and standardizing drinking topography data. Recent technologies allowing integrated data collection and greater environmental control, such as virtual reality (VR), could resolve these problems. METHODS In this pilot project, we assessed alcohol consumption topography of participants in a VR drinking environment with a programmable virtual confederate (i.e., bar goer) during two testing sessions. In one, the confederate drank quickly (30-60 s sip interval). In the other, the confederate drank slowly (60-120 s sip interval). Participants' hands and beverage were represented in VR. Between sips, beverages were placed on a Bluetooth-enabled scale, allowing real-time updates of drink weight. Participant experience was assessed after each testing visit. Multilevel modeling was used to characterize the effect of confederation condition on sip interval and sip volume. Descriptive analyses were used for participant experience data. RESULTS Results showed significant, moderate-to-strong between-visit correlations for topographic measures (r = 0.50 to r = 0.84) and indicate participants found the experience to be comfortable and acceptable. Multilevel models indicated participants had greater sip volumes and lower sip intervals when the confederate drank quickly. CONCLUSIONS Future studies should take advantage of the considerable translational value of this technology to improve understanding of risk associated with individual drinking bouts and develop novel interventions for reducing hazardous drinking.
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- Victor J Schneider
- Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA; Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA; Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA; Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA
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- Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA; Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA; Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
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Carpenter RW, Emery NN, Meisel SN, Miranda R. Naltrexone moderates the association of alcohol use and affect among adolescent drinkers in daily life. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2022; 46:326-337. [PMID: 34959253 PMCID: PMC8858857 DOI: 10.1111/acer.14768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2021] [Revised: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Naltrexone is an efficacious medication for the treatment of alcohol use disorder in adults. As an opioid receptor antagonist, naltrexone blocks activation of the endogenous opioid system, which is involved in the affectively reinforcing properties of substance use. Few studies, however, have examined the moderating effect of naltrexone on the association between affect and alcohol use. Additionally, most existing research on naltrexone has been with adults in the human laboratory. METHOD We conducted a secondary analysis of ecological momentary assessment data from a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled cross-over study that compared naltrexone (50 mg/daily) and placebo in 26 adolescents (15 to 19 years old) who exhibited problematic drinking patterns. Multilevel models tested whether naltrexone moderated associations of alcohol use with both positive and negative affect (PA, NA). RESULTS Results indicated that, during naltrexone treatment, greater estimated blood alcohol concentration (eBAC) levels were associated with greater NA further into drinking episodes. In turn, greater NA after the first drink of an episode was associated with reduced subsequent eBAC values during naltrexone treatment. Low PA was also associated with lower subsequent eBAC levels in the naltrexone condition after the first drink. CONCLUSIONS These findings support the idea that naltrexone can disrupt the association between affect and alcohol use, effects that emerge later in drinking episodes. Greater attention to the effects of naltrexone on affect and reinforcement may help to tailor psychotherapy to maximize the benefits of naltrexone. However, in the present study, as most drink reports were in the first 2 h of the drinking episode and participants reported affect only at the first three end-drink reports of a drinking episode (limiting the number of drinks reported), we had reduced power to detect effects in the continuation phase. Thus, replication of the findings is needed using a design that assesses the impact of naltrexone across the entire episode.
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- Ryan W. Carpenter
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University,E. P. Bradley Hospital, Riverside, RI
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University,E. P. Bradley Hospital, Riverside, RI
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Miller MB, Carpenter RW, Freeman LK, Curtis AF, Yurasek AM, McCrae CS. Cannabis use as a moderator of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. J Clin Sleep Med 2021; 18:1047-1054. [PMID: 34870584 DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.9796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Cannabis use is common among young adults and has been proposed as a potential treatment for insomnia. However, controlled studies examining the impact of cannabis use on insomnia symptoms are rare. This secondary analysis of published trial data tested cannabis use during cognitive behavioral treatment for insomnia (CBT-I) as a moderator of treatment efficacy. METHODS Young adults (ages 18-30 years) who reported past-month binge drinking (4/5+ drinks for women/men) and met DSM-5 and research diagnostic criteria for Insomnia Disorder were randomized to CBT-I (n=28) or sleep hygiene (SH; n=28). Interaction effects were tested using multilevel models. Outcomes included insomnia severity, actigraphy-assessed sleep efficiency, diary-assessed sleep quality, drinking quantity, and alcohol-related consequences. RESULTS Twenty-six participants (46%; 12 SH and 14 CBT-I) reported using cannabis during the treatment phase of the study, on an average of 23% of treatment days (range=3-100%). Relative to those who did not use cannabis, participants who used cannabis during treatment reported heavier drinking and more frequent cigarette use. Approximately 1 in 4 cannabis users (27%) reported using cannabis to help with sleep; however, cannabis and non-cannabis users did not differ in use of alcohol as a sleep aid. Controlling for sex, race, drinking quantity, cigarette use, symptoms of depression, and symptoms of anxiety, use of cannabis during treatment did not moderate CBT-I effects on insomnia severity (b= -.002, p=.99) or other outcomes (all p >.20). CONCLUSIONS CBT-I is effective in reducing insomnia symptoms among young adult drinkers with insomnia, regardless of cannabis use. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION Registry: ClinicalTrials.gov; Identifier: NCT03627832.
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- Mary Beth Miller
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO.,Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO.,Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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- Health Education and Behavior Department, College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO
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Carpenter RW, Hepp J. What does it mean that it doesn't hurt? Understanding the role of pain in nonsuicidal self-injury. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 2021. [DOI: 10.1037/cps0000042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Emery NN, Carpenter RW, Meisel SN, Miranda R. Effects of topiramate on the association between affect, cannabis craving, and cannabis use in the daily life of youth during a randomized clinical trial. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2021; 238:3095-3106. [PMID: 34331080 PMCID: PMC8908944 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-021-05925-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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RATIONALE Topiramate is an anticonvulsant currently under study for treating substance use disorders. Topiramate is thought to reduce substance use by attenuating craving and the rewarding effects of acute substance use through its concurrent GABAergic agonism and glutamatergic antagonism. Importantly, topiramate also impacts mood states central to many models of substance use. Despite this, little previous research has examined whether topiramate attenuates the respective associations of affect and craving with substance use. OBJECTIVES We conducted a secondary analysis of 63 youths that exhibited heavy cannabis use, aged 15-24 years, who were randomized in a double-blinded 6-week clinical trial comparing the effects of topiramate (up to 200 mg/day) and placebo on cannabis use. Ecological momentary assessment data were leveraged to model the role positive affect, negative affect, and craving on use over the 6-week period and whether topiramate attenuated associations between these feeling states and cannabis use. RESULTS Findings showed that craving was positively associated with use at the within-person level, while positive affect was negatively associated with use at the between-person level. Topiramate appears to attenuate the negative association of between-person positive affect (i.e., average) and cannabis use. Specifically, those in the placebo condition exhibited this inverse association between average positive affect and use while those in topiramate condition did not. No other significant affect or affect × medication condition interactions were observed. CONCLUSIONS These findings implicate craving and low positive affect as important risk factors for cannabis use in youth in treatment. Topiramate may attenuate this association for positive affect.
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- Noah N. Emery
- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Box S121-4, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Box S121-4, Providence, RI, 02912, USA.
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Wycoff AM, Carpenter RW, Hepp J, Piasecki TM, Trull TJ. Real-time reports of drinking to cope: Associations with subjective relief from alcohol and changes in negative affect. J Abnorm Psychol 2021; 130:641-650. [PMID: 34553959 DOI: 10.1037/abn0000684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Many individuals report drinking alcohol to cope or relieve negative affective states, but existing evidence is inconsistent regarding whether individuals experience negatively reinforcing effects after drinking to cope (DTC). We used ecological momentary assessment to examine the effects of DTC during daily-life drinking episodes in a sample of current drinkers (N = 110; 52 individuals with borderline personality disorder and 58 community individuals). Multilevel models were used to test whether momentary and episode-level endorsement of DTC-depression and DTC-anxiety motives would be related to increased subjective drinking-contingent relief and decreased depression and anxiety during drinking episodes. Momentary DTC-anxiety predicted greater subsequent drinking-contingent relief, and greater episode-level DTC-anxiety and DTC-depression predicted greater drinking-contingent relief during the episode. However, we did not find decreased depression and anxiety following endorsement of DTC-depression and DTC-anxiety. Instead, we found that greater episode-level DTC-depression was associated with increased depression. Thus, findings suggest that individuals' negative affective states may not improve during DTC despite endorsing drinking-contingent relief. This discrepancy warrants further attention because subjective relief likely reinforces DTC, whereas awareness of one's change (or lack of change) in affect may provide valuable counterevidence for whether alcohol use is an effective coping strategy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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Merrill JE, Carpenter RW, Boyle HK, Haikalis M, Jackson KM, Miranda R, Carey KB, Piasecki TM. Do alcohol-related consequences and how they are evaluated predict consumption during and days until the next drinking event? Psychol Addict Behav 2021; 35:587-596. [PMID: 34424029 DOI: 10.1037/adb0000747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Objective: Alcohol-related consequences are most often examined as outcomes of alcohol use. However, it is also possible that experiencing consequences may predict future drinking behavior. The predictive power of consequences on future drinking behavior may involve both objective experiences of consequences and subjective evaluations of those consequences (i.e., how positive, how negative). The purpose of the present study was to understand how positive and negative alcohol-related consequences-and evaluations of those consequences-predict elements of the next drinking event among college students. Method: 96 participants reported alcohol use and related consequences over a 28-day daily assessment period. Results: Survival analysis and multilevel modeling were used to examine the influence of positive and negative consequences from a given drinking event on latency to and number of drinks consumed at the next drinking event. Contrary to hypotheses, subsequent drinking was not impacted by recent consequences nor how they were perceived. Conclusions: Though theoretically, experiencing alcohol consequences may impact proximal drinking behavior, findings suggest that, in the current sample, other factors have greater importance in the latency between drinking events and amount of alcohol consumed. Future work should continue to identify event-level predictors that impact behavior at the next drinking event, and ways drinkers attempt to avoid repetition of drinking consequences other than simply drinking less (e.g., protective behavioral strategies), as such factors would be valuable targets for intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Jennifer E Merrill
- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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OBJECTIVE Social context plays a critical role in youth cannabis use. Yet few studies have examined if and when social contexts shift during cannabis use treatment. This study examined daily shifts in youths' social contexts with the goal of characterizing how specific social contexts (e.g., time with cannabis-using friends or siblings) relate to cannabis craving and use during cannabis treatment. METHOD Participants were 65 cannabis users (51% male), ages 15-24 years, who participated in a double-blind randomized clinical trial that tested the effects of motivational enhancement and cognitive behavioral therapies plus either adjunctive pharmacotherapy or placebo on cannabis craving and use. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data, collected from a pre-randomization period through the completion of the six-week intervention, assessed youths' social contexts, cannabis use, and craving. RESULTS Time-varying effects models identified shifts in social contexts during treatment. Overall, time spent with cannabis-using friends and siblings decreased, where time spent with non-using friends or alone increased across the trial. Time with parents or non-using siblings was unchanged. Comparing the relative associations of social contexts with same-day craving and use, more time with cannabis-using friends and with siblings was uniquely associated with greater craving and use. CONCLUSIONS Social context is an important factor in youth substance-use treatment. While time spent with cannabis-using friends and siblings decreased over treatment for all participants, those who continued to spend time with using individuals reported greater craving and use. This research supports increased attention to shifting youths' social contexts to enhance treatment success. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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Burke TA, Allen KJ, Carpenter RW, Siegel DM, Kautz MM, Liu RT, Alloy LB. Emotional response inhibition to self-harm stimuli interacts with momentary negative affect to predict nonsuicidal self-injury urges. Behav Res Ther 2021; 142:103865. [PMID: 33940222 PMCID: PMC8523023 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2021.103865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The current study investigated whether impaired emotional response inhibition to self-harm stimuli is a risk factor for real-time nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) urges. Participants were 60 university students with a history of repetitive NSSI. At baseline, participants completed an emotional stop-signal task assessing response inhibition to self-harm stimuli. Participants subsequently completed an ecological momentary assessment protocol in which they reported negative affect, urgency, and NSSI urge intensity three times daily over a ten-day period. Impaired emotional response inhibition to self-harm stimuli did not evidence a main effect on the strength of momentary NSSI urges. However, emotional response inhibition to self-harm images interacted with momentary negative affect to predict the strength of real-time NSSI urges, after adjusting for emotional response inhibition to neutral images. Our findings suggest that emotional response inhibition deficits specifically to self-harm stimuli may pose vulnerability for increased NSSI urge intensity during real-time, state-level negative affect.
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- Taylor A. Burke
- Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
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- Rutgers University, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
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- Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
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Banks DE, Carpenter RW, Wood CA, Winograd RP. Commentary on Furr-Holden et al. : As opioid overdose deaths accelerate among Black Americans, COVID-19 widens inequities-a critical need to invest in community-based approaches. Addiction 2021; 116:686-687. [PMID: 33417278 PMCID: PMC7878302 DOI: 10.1111/add.15362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated racial inequities in fatal opioid overdoses affecting Black Americans. To reduce overdose rates among Black Americans, funding and policy efforts should prioritize local strategies that build community trust, such as grassroots organizations already engaged in outreach, advocacy, and harm reduction services.
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- Devin E Banks
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Missouri Institute of Mental Health, University of Missouri St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Missouri Institute of Mental Health, University of Missouri St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
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Carpenter RW, Merrill JE. How much and how fast: Alcohol consumption patterns, drinking-episode affect, and next-day consequences in the daily life of underage heavy drinkers. Drug Alcohol Depend 2021; 218:108407. [PMID: 33257198 PMCID: PMC7750245 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Revised: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Understanding how alcohol consumption patterns are associated with negative and positive outcomes can inform efforts to reduce negative consequences through modification of those patterns. This is important in underage drinkers, many of whom drink heavily despite negative consequences. Most work has focused on the amount of alcohol consumed, but amount provides limited information about consumption patterns compared to rate of consumption, or how fast individuals drink. We therefore examined associations of both amount and rate of consumption with negative and positive outcomes (immediate affective states and next-morning consequences) in daily life. METHOD Ninety-five college students aged 18-20 years completed ecological momentary assessment over 28 days. Participants reported number of standard drinks consumed and positive and negative affect hourly within drinking episodes. Estimated blood alcohol concentration (eBAC) values were used to create amount and rate of consumption indicators. Each morning after drinking, participants reported negative (e.g., blackout, hangover) and positive (e.g., new friend, making others laugh) consequences. RESULTS Within drinking episodes, multilevel models showed faster consumption was associated with reduced negative affect and both larger amount and faster consumption were associated with greater positive affect. Further, amount and rate were both associated with greater likelihood of a negative consequence the next morning. Rate, but not amount, was associated with more positive consequences. CONCLUSIONS Not only how much but also how fast individuals drink may be important for the positive and negative outcomes they experience. Interventions to reduce negative alcohol-related outcomes should consider not only amount, but also rate of consumption.
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- Ryan W Carpenter
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 423 Stadler Hall, One University Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63121, USA.
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Box G-S121-5, Providence, RI, 02912, USA.
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Hepp J, Carpenter RW, Freeman LK, Vebares TJ, Trull TJ. The environmental, interpersonal, and affective context of nonsuicidal self-injury urges in daily life. Personal Disord 2020; 12:29-38. [PMID: 32881575 DOI: 10.1037/per0000456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Urges for nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) are important precursors to NSSI acts and may serve as a point of intervention. A close understanding of the phenomenology of NSSI urges and the contexts in which they occur is therefore warranted. We used ambulatory assessment to examine the environmental, interpersonal, and affective contexts of NSSI urges. We recruited 56 participants with borderline personality disorder who reported on urges and contexts for 21 days with six random daily prompts, resulting in 5,750 completed assessments. Twenty-two participants reported 160 NSSI urges. We provide extensive descriptive results characterizing the interaction partners, activities, and events participants reported in association with NSSI urges. Results from a logistic multilevel model using the full sample (testing associations between all contexts and urges simultaneously) revealed that urges were more likely to occur at higher levels of negative affect, when rejection was experienced, and later in the day. Urges were not associated with disagreements or feeling let down, being at home versus away, being alone versus in company, socializing versus doing another activity, and it being a weekday versus weekend. Additional growth curve analysis for negative affect using the subsample of 22 participants who reported urges showed that, over the course of urge days compared with nonurge days, negative affect increased before urges, peaked during the urge, and then decreased, approximating a quadratic curve. We conclude that urges occurred primarily in the context of negative affect and rejection, which is consistent with theories on intra- and interpersonal functions of NSSI. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Johanna Hepp
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri
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Hepp J, Carpenter RW, Störkel LM, Schmitz SE, Schmahl C, Niedtfeld I. A systematic review of daily life studies on non-suicidal self-injury based on the four-function model. Clin Psychol Rev 2020; 82:101888. [PMID: 32949907 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2020] [Revised: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent, impairing, and trans-diagnostic behavior that can be comprehensively assessed in daily life studies. We conducted a systematic literature review of 35 Ambulatory Assessment and Daily Diary studies of NSSI, to achieve three aims. First, we reviewed descriptive evidence on NSSI acts. On average, studies observed 1.6 acts per participant, but evidence regarding methods, pain, and context was sparse. Second, we reviewed evidence on NSSI urges. On average, studies reported 4.3 urges per participant. Urges were also associated with increased negative affect and predicted later acts. Third, we reviewed evidence on the Four-function Model of NSSI. Eight studies partially supported negative intrapersonal reinforcement, showing increased negative affect pre NSSI, but, of these, only four studies supported decreased negative affect post NSSI. Additionally, only three studies supported positive intrapersonal reinforcement, showing decreased positive affect pre and increased positive affect post NSSI. Evidence for the interpersonal functions was limited to two studies and inconclusive. We recommend assessing the intensity, frequency, and context of acts and urges, as well as pain and urge duration in future studies. We also recommend follow-up prompts after acts and urges to better track affect trajectories, and a detailed assessment of interpersonal events.
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- Johanna Hepp
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany.
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, St. Louis, United States of America
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany
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Wycoff AM, Carpenter RW, Hepp J, Lane SP, Trull TJ. Drinking motives moderate daily-life associations between affect and alcohol use in individuals with borderline personality disorder. Psychol Addict Behav 2020; 34:745-755. [PMID: 32324000 DOI: 10.1037/adb0000588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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People often report drinking to cope with negative affect (NA) or to enhance positive affect (PA). However, findings from daily life studies examining the interaction of motives and affect to predict alcohol use are mixed. Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) may be particularly susceptible to drinking for the purpose of changing affective states, representing a population in which these patterns may be more readily identifiable in daily life. We tested whether drinking motives moderate daily life associations between affect and drinking in individuals with BPD. Regular drinkers with BPD (N = 54; 81.5% female) completed ecological momentary assessments approximately 6-10 times daily for 21 days. We tested whether the interactions between (a) person-level coping motives and NA so far that day (i.e., cumulative-average NA), and (b) person-level enhancement and cumulative-average PA were associated with subsequent drinking. We also tested whether effects differed for the initiation versus continuation of a drinking episode. Using generalized estimating equations, the interaction between coping and cumulative-average NA was positively associated with momentary drinking, with some evidence for a stronger relation during the continuation of drinking. The interaction between enhancement motives and cumulative-average PA was positively associated with initiation but negatively associated with continuation of drinking. Our novel approach of using cumulative-average affect and distinguishing initiation and continuation of drinking allowed us to examine differential momentary patterns across the drinking episode, and results suggest that awareness of motives as well as affect leading up to and during drinking may be a useful intervention target. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Andrea M Wycoff
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Heidelberg University
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri
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Carpenter RW, Squeglia LM, Emery NN, McClure EA, Gray KM, Miranda R, Tomko RL. Making pharmacotherapy trials for substance use disorder more efficient: Leveraging real-world data capture to maximize power and expedite the medication development pipeline. Drug Alcohol Depend 2020; 209:107897. [PMID: 32058245 PMCID: PMC7138753 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.107897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Revised: 01/31/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Ryan W. Carpenter
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
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Emery NN, Carpenter RW, Treloar Padovano H, Miranda R. Why don't they stop? Understanding unplanned marijuana use among adolescents and young adults. Psychol Addict Behav 2020; 34:579-589. [PMID: 32039620 DOI: 10.1037/adb0000561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Difficulty regulating substance use is a core feature of addiction that can manifest as unplanned use. This study sought to identify internal and situational influences on unplanned marijuana use among youth ages 15 to 24 years (N = 85; 48% female; 27% age <18 years). Additionally, we disentangled person-level associations from within-person day-to-day influences. Ecological momentary assessment methods captured affective (positive: energized, excited, sociable, happy, relaxed; negative: bored, tense, sad, stressed) and situational factors in real-world settings during a 1-week monitoring period. Participants reported no plan to use on 51% of days (269/527), and youth ultimately used marijuana on 35% of these unplanned days. At the day level, on days when youth spent more time in the presence of marijuana-related cues than they typically do, they used more grams on planned days and less on unplanned days. Regardless of use plans, youth were more likely to use on days when they spent more time with using friends and if they reported greater availability of marijuana in general across the monitoring period. At the person level, youth who generally reported higher positive affect, relative to other participants, used more on planned days and less on unplanned days. Regardless of use plans, youth who generally reported greater craving and time in the presence of marijuana-related cues used more grams, whereas youth who generally reported greater negative affect used less. Together, findings revealed several factors, with clear clinical relevance, which may explain why some youth struggle to control their marijuana use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Noah N Emery
- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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Carpenter RW, Lane SP, Bruehl S, Trull TJ. Concurrent and lagged associations of prescription opioid use with pain and negative affect in the daily lives of chronic pain patients. J Consult Clin Psychol 2019; 87:872-886. [PMID: 31556664 DOI: 10.1037/ccp0000402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Prescribed opioids for chronic pain management contribute significantly to the opioid crisis. There is a need to understand the real-world benefits that, despite risks, lead chronic pain patients to persist in opioid use. Negative reinforcement models of addiction posit that individuals use substances to reduce aversive states but have seldom been applied to prescribed opioids. Using ecological momentary assessment, we examined reciprocal associations between opioid use and physical pain, for which opioids are prescribed, and negative affect (NA), for which they are not. METHOD Chronic low back pain patients on long-term opioid therapy (n = 34) without significant past-year opioid misuse reported multiple times daily via smartphone over 2 weeks (nobservations = 2,285). We hypothesized that pain and NA would be positively associated with subsequent opioid use, and that use would be negatively associated with subsequent pain and NA. RESULTS Time-lagged multilevel models indicated that participants were more likely to use opioids and in larger doses following elevated pain and NA. There was also an interaction of concurrent pain and NA on opioid dose. In turn, participants reported reduced pain and NA following larger doses. Additionally, individuals at high risk for opioid misuse, compared with low risk, took larger doses following pain, but also experienced smaller subsequent pain and NA reductions. CONCLUSIONS Opioid use was bidirectionally associated with pain and NA. Findings fit negative reinforcement models associated with risk of developing opioid use disorder. Educating patients and providers about negative reinforcement may help reduce opioid use and opioid-associated risks. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri
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Miranda R, Wemm SE, Treloar Padovano H, Carpenter RW, Emery NN, Gray JC, Mereish EH. Weaker Memory Performance Exacerbates Stress-Induced Cannabis Craving in Youths' Daily Lives. Clin Psychol Sci 2019; 7:1094-1108. [PMID: 31737439 DOI: 10.1177/2167702619841976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Theories of addiction posit that stimuli associated with drug use, including both exteroceptive (e.g., paraphernalia) and interoceptive (e.g., feeling tense or "stressed"), evoke craving and contribute to the pathogenesis of substance misuse. Control over drug cue response and stress is essential for moderating use. Building from laboratory data supporting associations between cue exposure, stress, and craving, this study tested whether these associations generalize to real-world settings and examined whether a well-vetted neurocognitive control capacity, i.e., working memory (WM), moderated associations. Youth (N = 85; 15-24 years) completed baseline and ecological momentary assessments. Cue exposure and participants' average stress predicted higher craving. Youth with weaker WM experienced stronger craving at higher-stress moments but not when faced with cues. Interactions were present for both previous-moment and same-moment stress. Craving among adolescents with stronger WM was not swayed by momentary stress. Findings suggest stronger WM protects against craving at more stressful moments.
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- Robert Miranda
- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University; Department of Health Studies, American University
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Carpenter RW, Stanton K, Emery NN, Zimmerman M. Positive and Negative Activation in the Mood Disorder Questionnaire: Associations With Psychopathology and Emotion Dysregulation in a Clinical Sample. Assessment 2019; 27:219-231. [PMID: 31137947 DOI: 10.1177/1073191119851574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The Mood Disorder Questionnaire is a screening measure for bipolar disorder, previously found to comprise separate Positive and Negative Activation subscales. We sought to replicate these factors and examine their associations with a range of psychopathology. To further explicate the nature of Negative Activation, we examined associations with the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, a measure of emotion dysregulation. The sample consisted of 1,787 participants from an outpatient treatment facility. Confirmatory factor analysis replicated the existence of Positive and Negative Activation subscales. Logistic regressions, as hypothesized, found that Positive Activation was positively associated only with bipolar disorder, while Negative Activation was associated with almost all disorders. The Impulse and Goals subscales of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale were uniquely associated with Negative Activation, suggesting it may specifically assess impulsive behavior in emotional situations. The findings suggest that it may be important to attend to both Mood Disorder Questionnaire subscales.
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- University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Background: Alcohol craving is common among adolescents, stronger among those with more alcohol-related problems, and predicts drinking levels in their daily lives. Yet, the conditions that predict momentary changes in craving in real time among adolescents remain unclear. Objectives: This study examined the interactive effects of momentary risk-taking propensity and affect on adolescents' alcohol craving by leveraging ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods. Methods: Participants were 29 adolescents ages 15-19 years (55% female; 69% White; 10% Black; 17% Hispanic); 45% met criteria for alcohol dependence. Following a laboratory session that captured self-report and behavioral assessments, including the well-established Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART), participants completed multiple daily assessments of alcohol craving, positive and negative affect, and risk propensity for approximately one week. Momentary risk propensity was captured in real-world settings via an EMA behavioral task ("Balloon Game"). Results: Mixed-effects models with EMA reports (Level 1) nested within participants (Level 2) revealed the majority (74%) of variability in "Balloon Game" performance was due to within-person, momentary, fluctuations. Greater momentary positive affect predicted increased alcohol craving, but only when participants exhibited heightened risk-taking propensity. Negative affect did not influence the relation between momentary risk-taking and craving. Conclusions/Importance: Momentary fluctuations in positive affect predicted acute increases in craving but only in moments when adolescents demonstrated higher levels of risk-taking propensity, as captured with an EMA-delivered behavioral task. Momentary risk-taking assessments offer new avenues to substantiate dominant theories on the driving mechanisms of craving and alcohol use among adolescents.
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- Hayley Treloar Padovano
- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University , Providence , Rhode Island , USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University , Providence , Rhode Island , USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University , Providence , Rhode Island , USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University , Providence , Rhode Island , USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University , Providence , Rhode Island , USA
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Hepp J, Lane SP, Wycoff AM, Carpenter RW, Trull TJ. Interpersonal stressors and negative affect in individuals with borderline personality disorder and community adults in daily life: A replication and extension. J Abnorm Psychol 2018. [PMID: 29528672 DOI: 10.1037/abn0000318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Affective instability and interpersonal stress are key features of borderline personality disorder (BPD). They were shown to covary in the daily lives of patients in a recent ambulatory assessment study (Hepp et al., 2017) that observed comparatively larger positive associations between interpersonal stressors and negative affect in individuals with BPD than those with depressive disorders. The present study sought to replicate these findings, collecting data on hostility, sadness, fear, and rejection or disagreement events from 56 BPD and 60 community control participants for 21 days, 6 times a day. Using identical statistical procedures, the positive associations between momentary rejection/disagreement and hostility, sadness, and fear were replicated. Again replicating the original study, the rejection-hostility, rejection-sadness, and disagreement-hostility associations were significantly stronger in the BPD group. Time-lagged analyses extended the original study, revealing that rejection was associated with subsequent hostility and sadness more strongly in the BPD group, as was disagreement with subsequent hostility and fear. Though small, we argue that the observed group differences reflect meaningful pervasive responses in a daily life context. Future research should consider these when implementing affect regulation strategies that are applicable in interpersonal contexts for all individuals, but particularly those with BPD. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Johanna Hepp
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim at Heidelberg University
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri
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Carpenter RW, Tragesser SL, Lane SP, Trull TJ. Momentary assessment of everyday physical pain in outpatients with borderline personality disorder. Personal Disord 2018; 10:143-153. [PMID: 30024195 DOI: 10.1037/per0000304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe psychiatric disorder associated with dysregulation in multiple domains of functioning. Physical health, and specifically pain, is one such domain that has gone understudied. Although evidence suggests that BPD is associated with chronic pain, few studies have examined nonchronic pain in the disorder. The current study used ambulatory assessment to examine momentary physical pain in everyday life in BPD outpatients (N = 26) and community comparisons (COM; N = 26) not in treatment for chronic pain (Nobservations = 5,458). We predicted and observed that BPD outpatients would report greater pain intensity and greater pain variability than COM comparisons. We also examined the relationship of pain and emotion dysregulation, a core feature of BPD, by testing the association between pain and negative affect concurrently and lagged over time. We predicted that momentary pain and negative affect would be associated in both groups, but that pain would predict negative affect more strongly in the BPD group. As predicted, concurrent pain and negative affect were associated in both groups, and groups differed significantly in terms of the association of lagged pain and next-assessment negative affect, with a negative association in the COM group. The current study represents a preliminary first step, finding that pain is relevant to the everyday experience of BPD individuals. This pain propensity may contribute to the elevated prevalence of BPD in chronic pain samples. Further, BPD individuals demonstrated emotional reactivity to pain, suggesting that pain may be a contributor to emotion dysregulation in this disorder. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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In recent years, significant technological advances have changed our understanding of dynamic processes in clinical psychology. A particularly important agent of change has been ambulatory assessment (AA). AA is the assessment of individuals in their daily lives, combining the twin benefits of increased ecological validity and minimized retrospective biases. These benefits make AA particularly well-suited to the assessment of dynamic processes, and recent advancements in technology are providing exciting new opportunities to understand these processes in new ways. In the current article, we briefly detail the capabilities currently offered by smartphones and mobile physiological devices, as well as some of the practical and ethical challenges of incorporating these new technologies into AA research. We then provide several examples of recent innovative applications of AA methodology in clinical research, assessment, and intervention and provide a case example of AA data generated from a study utilizing multiple mobile devices. In this way, we aim to provide a sense of direction for researchers planning AA studies of their own.
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Hepp J, Lane SP, Carpenter RW, Niedtfeld I, Brown WC, Trull TJ. Interpersonal problems and negative affect in Borderline Personality and Depressive Disorders in daily life. Clin Psychol Sci 2017; 5:470-484. [PMID: 28529826 PMCID: PMC5436804 DOI: 10.1177/2167702616677312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Theories of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) suggest that interpersonal problems in BPD act as triggers for negative affect and, at the same time, are a possible result of affective dysregulation. Therefore, we assessed the relations between momentary negative affect (hostility, sadness, fear) and interpersonal problems (rejection, disagreement) in a sample of 80 BPD and 51 depressed outpatients at 6 time-points over 28 days. Data were analyzed using multivariate multi-level modeling to separate momentary-, day-, and person-level effects. Results revealed a mutually reinforcing relationship between disagreement and hostility, rejection and hostility, and between rejection and sadness in both groups, at the momentary and day level. The mutual reinforcement between hostility and rejection/disagreement was significantly stronger in the BPD group. Moreover, the link between rejection and sadness was present at all three levels of analysis for the BPD group, while it was localized to the momentary level in the depressed group.
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- Johanna Hepp
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; address: C4, 11, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University; address: C4, 11, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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- Research Institute on Addiction, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Reynolds CJ, Carpenter RW, Tragesser SL. Accounting for the association between BPD features and chronic pain complaints in a pain patient sample: The role of emotion dysregulation factors. Personal Disord 2017; 9:284-289. [PMID: 28206807 DOI: 10.1037/per0000237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Although borderline personality disorder (BPD) features consistently show strong relations with chronic pain, the mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear. BPD is characterized by dysregulated emotion. Given previously observed relationships between emotion dysregulation and pain, we hypothesized that components of this dysregulation-elevated and labile negative affect and emotion sensitivity-would account for the relationship between BPD features and various pain complaints in a chronic pain patient sample. Specifically, we hypothesized that negative affect would indirectly predict pain through higher emotion sensitivity to pain, operationalized as pain anxiety sensitivity. To test these hypotheses, we administered a series of self-report measures to 147 patients at a chronic pain treatment facility. As expected, BPD features predicted pain severity (β = .19, p = .029), activity interference from pain (β = .22, p = .015), and affective interference from pain (β = .41, p < .001). Using path analyses, we found that the associations between BPD features and pain severity and interference were accounted for by serial indirect pathways through affective lability then pain anxiety and, to a lesser extent, through trait anxiety then pain anxiety. This is the first study to demonstrate roles for affective lability and pain anxiety sensitivity in the association between BPD features and chronic pain complaints in a chronic pain sample. We discuss implications for the relationship between dysregulated emotion and pain as well as for psychologically-focused treatment interventions for pain. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Trull TJ, Wycoff AM, Lane SP, Carpenter RW, Brown WC. Cannabis and alcohol use, affect and impulsivity in psychiatric out-patients' daily lives. Addiction 2016; 111:2052-2059. [PMID: 27270874 PMCID: PMC5056804 DOI: 10.1111/add.13471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2016] [Revised: 03/15/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Cannabis and alcohol are the most commonly used (il)licit drugs world-wide. We compared the effects of cannabis and alcohol use on within-person changes in impulsivity, hostility and positive affect at the momentary and daily levels, as they occurred in daily life. DESIGN Observational study involving ecological momentary assessments collected via electronic diaries six random times a day for 28 consecutive days. SETTING Out-patients' everyday life contexts in Columbia, MO, USA. PARTICIPANTS Ninety-three adult psychiatric out-patients (85% female; mean = 30.9 years old) with borderline personality or depressive disorders, who reported using only cannabis (n = 3), only alcohol (n = 58) or both (n = 32) at least once during the study period. MEASUREMENTS Real-time, standard self-report measures of impulsivity, hostility and positive affect, as impacted by momentary reports of cannabis and alcohol use. FINDINGS Cannabis use was associated with elevated feelings of impulsivity at the day level [b = 0.83, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.17-1.49] and increased hostility at the momentary (b = 0.07, 95% CI = 0.01-0.12) and person (b = 0.81, 95% CI = 0.15-1.47) level. Alcohol use was associated with elevated feelings of impulsivity at the momentary (b = 0.42, 95% CI = 0.13-0.71) and day levels (b = 0.82, 95% CI = 0.22-1.41) and increased positive affect at the momentary (b = 0.12, 95% CI = 0.06-0.18) and day (b = 0.33, 95% CI = 0.16-0.49) levels. CONCLUSIONS Cannabis and alcohol use are associated with increases in impulsivity (both), hostility (cannabis) and positive affect (alcohol) in daily life, and these effects are part of separate processes that operate on different time-scales (i.e. momentary versus daily).
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- Timothy J. Trull
- University of Missouri and Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Columbia, MO
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- University of Missouri and Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Columbia, MO
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- University of Missouri and Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Columbia, MO
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- University of Missouri and Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Columbia, MO
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- Research Institute on Addiction, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
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Carpenter RW, Wood PK, Trull TJ. Comorbidity of Borderline Personality Disorder and Lifetime Substance Use Disorders in a Nationally Representative Sample. J Pers Disord 2016; 30:336-50. [PMID: 25893556 DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2015_29_197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is comorbid with substance use disorders (SUDs). However, most epidemiological work on BPD and SUDs has collapsed nonalcohol substances into a drug use disorder indicator, potentially obscuring patterns of association between BPD and individal SUDs. Using a nationally representative sample (National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions; N = 34,481), the authors examined the association between lifetime BPD and nine lifetime SUDs. First, the authors examined the bivariate association of BPD and each SUD. BPD was associated with all nine SUDs. Second, they added relevant covariates (demographic variables, additional psychopathology) to each model. Seven SUDs remained significant. Finally, to account for shared variance across SUDs, the authors conducted a multivariate logistic regression with the nine SUDs and covariates as predictors. Alcohol, cocaine, and opiate use disorder were the only significant SUD predictors, indicating a unique association between BPD and these three SUDs. Future research should explore factors involved in the association of BPD with these specific SUDs.
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Substance use is highly prevalent in our society, and substance use disorders are comorbid with most psychiatric disorders, including borderline personality disorder (BPD; Grant et al., 2006, 2008). Craving is a fundamental feature of addiction and disorder, yet the contexts in which craving occurs and is associated with substance use is still under-researched. We examined alcohol craving and consumption in a sample of 56 BPD individuals and a comparison group of community drinkers (COM; n = 60) who carried electronic diaries for approximately 21 days. BPD individuals reported more craving than COM individuals in most contexts. Compared to COM individuals, elevated craving in BPD individuals was paralleled by more drinking when at work, at home, and with romantic partners, coworkers, and children. These findings identify contexts of particular relevance to those with BPD and other mood/anxiety disorders in which craving may lead to risky and maladaptive alcohol use.
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- Sean P Lane
- University of Missouri-Columbia and Alcoholism Research Center, Columbia, MO
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- University of Missouri-Columbia and Alcoholism Research Center, Columbia, MO
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- University of Missouri-Columbia and Alcoholism Research Center, Columbia, MO
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- University of Missouri-Columbia and Alcoholism Research Center, Columbia, MO
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Hepp J, Carpenter RW, Lane SP, Trull TJ. Momentary symptoms of borderline personality disorder as a product of trait personality and social context. Personal Disord 2016; 7:384-393. [PMID: 26901455 DOI: 10.1037/per0000175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Past studies identify Five Factor Model (FFM) domains that are characteristic of borderline personality disorder (BPD), including those associated with specific BPD symptoms, at a between-person level. The present study replicated these between-person associations and extended past research by assessing whether the FFM explains within-person variance in the manifestation of momentary BPD symptoms in the presence or absence of close social contact (CSC). We measured CSC and the BPD core symptoms negative affectivity, impulsivity, and interpersonal problems in 74 BPD patients and in a clinical control group of 40 depressed patients over the course of 28 days, 6 times a day. The FFM domains showed specificity in predicting momentary BPD symptoms and interacted with CSC in doing so. In particular, for BPD individuals only, momentary impulsivity and interpersonal problems were associated with higher neuroticism and extraversion and lower agreeableness, and these associations were especially strong in situations involving CSC. Negative affectivity was predicted by neuroticism for both groups of individuals, and this association was generally unaffected by CSC. Overall, experiencing CSC was positively associated with momentary BPD symptoms. Thus, both the FFM and CSC were associated with BPD patients' experience of symptoms in everyday life. Furthermore, specific FFM trait domains were particularly impactful in contexts where BPD symptoms are more likely to be manifested, providing further evidence that person-by-situation interactions are important for understanding BPD symptoms in the moment. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Johanna Hepp
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Carpenter RW, Trull TJ. The pain paradox: Borderline personality disorder features, self-harm history, and the experience of pain. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 6:141-51. [DOI: 10.1037/per0000112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Impulsivity is a core feature of many psychiatric disorders. Traditionally, impulsivity has been assessed using retrospective questionnaires or laboratory tasks. Both approaches neglect intraindividual variability in impulsivity and do not capture impulsivity as it occurs in real-world settings. The goal of the current study was to provide a method for assessing impulsivity in daily life that provides both between-individual and within-individual information. Participants with borderline personality disorder (BPD; n = 67) or a depressive disorder (DD; n = 38) carried an electronic diary for 28 days and responded to 9 impulsivity items up to 6 times per day. Item distributions and iterative exploratory factor analysis (EFA) results were examined to select the items that best captured momentary impulsivity. A brief 4-item scale was created that can be used for the assessment of momentary impulsivity. Model fit was good for both within- and between-individual EFA. As expected, the BPD group showed significantly higher scores on our Momentary Impulsivity Scale than the DD group, and the resulting scale was moderately correlated with common trait impulsivity scales.
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