Individual differences in trait urgency moderate the role of the affect heuristic in adolescent binge drinking

Title
Individual differences in trait urgency moderate the role of the affect heuristic in adolescent binge drinking
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
Phillips, Wendy J
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5063-5758
Email: wphilli4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:wphilli4
Hine, Donald W
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3905-7026
Email: dhine@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:dhine
Marks, Anthony
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.028
UNE publication id
une:6361
Abstract
This study investigated the roles of the affect heuristic and outcome beliefs in explaining the relationship between negative urgency and adolescent binge drinking behaviour. The sample consisted of 391 Australian high school students, who were selected to be low or high on urgency. We hypothesised that highly urgent adolescents would be more likely than adolescents low in urgency to utilise the affect heuristic (i.e., to rely upon affective input) when making alcohol-related decisions. Multiple-group path analysis supported this prediction. Adolescents high in urgency exhibited greater use of the affect heuristic by displaying a direct path from affective associations to binge drinking; whereas adolescents low in urgency exhibited greater reliance upon rational processing by displaying an indirect path via outcome beliefs
Link
Citation
Personality and Individual Differences, 47(8), p. 829-834
ISSN
1873-3549
0191-8869
Start page
829
End page
834

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