The impact of sexual self-concept ambiguity on alcohol approach bias and consumption |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University, MS 42051, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA;2. Allegheny Health Network, Psychiatric and Behavioral Health Institute, University of Temple School of Medicine, 4 Allegheny Center, 8th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, United States;3. Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way/Tobin Hall, Amherst, MA 01003, USA;4. Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 200 South Seventh Street, Psychology Building, Columbia, MO 65211, USA;2. Department of Nursing, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan;3. Sunshine Queer Center, Taiwan Love and Hope Association, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;4. Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;5. Graduate Institute of Rehabilitation Counseling, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;2. Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;3. Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;1. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax B3H 4J1, Nova Scotia, Canada;2. Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Suite 8103, Abbie J. Lane Memorial Building, 5909 Veterans Memorial Lane, Halifax B3H 2E2, Nova Scotia, Canada;1. Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS), School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA;2. Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA;3. Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
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| Abstract: | The current work sought to examine both intra-individual and situational features that can predict heightened alcohol misuse among individuals who report sexual-orientation self-concept ambiguity (SSA). It was hypothesized that situations that evoke the salience of individuals' sexuality will contribute to alcohol misuse among individuals who report heightened SSA. In the first experiment, fifty-nine students were recruited from psychology subject pools at two large state universities. Following a writing manipulation, used to evoke a state of heightened self-focus on an individual's sexuality, participants completed the Alcohol Approach-Avoidance Task, which served as a marker of implicit bias toward alcohol-related cues. In the second experiment, ninety-four women between the ages of 21 and 35 were recruited into a lab-based study. Utilizing procedures similar to the first experiment, we attempted to test our research questions in an ad lib drinking study. Among young adults with greater SSA, situations that induced heightened self-focus were predictive of increased approach bias toward alcohol-related cues and increased consumption of an ostensibly alcoholic beverage. Evidence supported a causal link between the situational salience of sexuality and acute risk of alcohol-approach bias and consumption behavior among those with heightened SSA. Preventive interventions may highlight variation in risk of alcohol misuse based on identity-related risk factors, such as sexual self-concept ambiguity, and drinking motivations. |
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