PMID- 15000508 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040602 LR - 20190901 IS - 0096-882X (Print) IS - 0096-882X (Linking) VI - 65 IP - 1 DP - 2004 Jan TI - Accessibility of alcohol expectancies from memory: impact of mood and motives in college student drinkers. PG - 95-104 AB - OBJECTIVE: It has been hypothesized that alcohol outcome expectancies (AOEs) exist within an associative memory network and that their accessibility is facilitated in the presence of alcohol-related cues. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the accessibility of specific AOEs varies as a function of mood state and gender and to determine whether this relationship is moderated by affect-related drinking motives. METHOD: Undergraduate students (N = 302) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (i.e., positive, negative and neutral mood). Mood states were achieved using musical mood-induction procedures. Postmood-induction AOEs, obtained using self-generation, were classified into five expectancy categories: social/ situational enhancement (SSE), positive emotional functioning (PEF), relaxation/tension reduction (RTR), physical/pharmacological effects (PPE) and miscellaneous (MISC). RESULTS: Logistic regression analyses revealed that SSE and RTR expectancies were differentially accessible across mood conditions. SSE expectancies were most highly accessible to participants in a positive mood, and RTR expectancies were most highly accessible to participants in a relatively neutral mood. Although drinking motives did not moderate the AOE-mood relationship, they emerged as significant predictors of SSE and RTR expectancies. The accessibility of specific AOEs differed among men and women. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that mood serves as an implicit prime for the accessibility of specific AOEs. The implications of these findings for research concerning memory-based, cognitive-affective expectancy networks are discussed. FAU - Goldstein, Abby L AU - Goldstein AL AD - Department of Psychology, York University, Room 297, Behavioral Sciences Building, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3. agoldste@yorku.ca FAU - Wall, Anne-Marie AU - Wall AM FAU - McKee, Sherry A AU - McKee SA FAU - Hinson, Riley E AU - Hinson RE LA - eng PT - Clinical Trial PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Randomized Controlled Trial PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - J Stud Alcohol JT - Journal of studies on alcohol JID - 7503813 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - *Affect/physiology MH - Alcohol Drinking/epidemiology/*psychology MH - Analysis of Variance MH - Chi-Square Distribution MH - Confidence Intervals MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - *Memory/physiology MH - *Motivation MH - Odds Ratio MH - Students/*psychology/statistics & numerical data MH - Universities/statistics & numerical data EDAT- 2004/03/06 05:00 MHDA- 2004/06/03 05:00 CRDT- 2004/03/06 05:00 PHST- 2004/03/06 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/06/03 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/03/06 05:00 [entrez] AID - 10.15288/jsa.2004.65.95 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Stud Alcohol. 2004 Jan;65(1):95-104. doi: 10.15288/jsa.2004.65.95.