title: Interoceptive awareness, tension reduction expectancies and self-reported drinking behavior.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Recent accounts have suggested the involvement of interoceptive processes in consumption behavior for alcohol and other drugs. However, there is a paucity of empirical support for a direct association with physiologically assessed individual differences in interoceptive awareness (IA). The current research explored this postulated link and examined the interplay with positive outcome expectancies of alcohol consumption.
  
  
  METHODS
  IA of alcohol-dependent adult in- and outpatients was measured with an objective electrocardiogram heart rate tracking task. Tension reduction expectancies (TRE) and drinking compulsions/obsessions were assessed with self-report questionnaires.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No direct associations of IA with drinking compulsions/obsessions were found. However, IA and TRE interacted as predictors of drinking compulsions and drinking obsessions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results corroborate the suggestion that neglect of bodily feedback might be a maintaining factor for drinking behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Social & Legal Psychology, University of Bonn, Kaiser-Karl-Ring 9, 53111 Bonn, Germany. afschmidt@uni-bonn.de
authors.forename: Alexander F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eulenbruch
authors.forename: Clara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Langer
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Banger
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D001364:Awareness; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010465:Perception; D057566:Self Report; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*