较高的酒精使用与随后寻求收益的风险增加有关:年轻男性的纵向队列研究
Angela Hentschel1, Johannes Petzold1, Hao Chen1
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Alcohol, clinical & experimental research
|April 19, 2025
概括
年轻的成年人饮酒阻碍了风险回避的发展,可能会增加酒精摄入量. 这种效应是特定于对收益的风险厌恶,而不是其他决策领域.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 成研究 研究成研究
背景情况:
- 冲动和冒险的选择是成中常见的,包括酒精使用障碍 (AUD).
- 虽然一些决策领域预测了危险的酒精使用,但酒精消费对决策发展的影响不太清楚.
- 这些影响可能在年轻成年期更为明显,这是大脑发育的关键时期.
研究的目的:
- 研究酒精消费如何影响年轻男性在三年内在四个决策领域的变化.
- 为了将累积的酒精摄入量和狂饮频率与时间折扣的变化,对收益的风险厌恶,寻求损失的风险和损失厌恶相关联.
主要方法:
- 一项为期3年的前性研究,涉及130名18岁的男性.
- 评估时间折扣,对收益的风险厌恶,寻求损失的风险,以及基线和后续的损失厌恶.
- 统计分析将酒精消费指标 (累计摄入量,狂饮频率) 与决策得分的变化相关联.
主要成果:
- 从18岁到21岁,选择冲动性在时间折扣和对收益的风险厌恶性下降.
- 较高的累积酒精摄入量和暴饮暴饮的频率与获得利的风险厌恶增加的减少有关.
- 没有观察到寻求损失或损失厌恶风险的显著变化,也没有与饮酒相关联.
结论:
- 在年轻成年期饮酒会影响风险厌恶的发展.
- 这种发育障碍可能会产生反循环,可能会增加酒精消费.
- 酒精对决策的影响在各个领域各不相同,这表明酒精对冲动行为具有特定而不是普遍的影响.
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