title: Longitudinal relations between cognitive bias and adolescent alcohol use.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To prospectively predict the development of adolescent alcohol use with alcohol-related cognitive biases, and to predict the development of alcohol-related cognitive biases with aspects of impulsivity.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were used from a two-year, four-wave online sample of 378 Dutch young adolescents (mean age 14.9 years, 64.8% female). With zero-inflated Poisson regression analysis we prospectively predicted weekly alcohol use using baseline cognitive biases. Additionally, multiple regression analyses were used to prospectively predict the emergence of alcohol-specific cognitive biases by baseline impulsivity and alcohol use.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Zero-inflated Poisson analyses demonstrated that the Visual Probe Task reliably predicted weekly alcohol use at different time points. Baseline alcohol use and baseline impulsivity measures did generally not predict alcohol-specific cognitive biases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of this study indicated that while certain measures of alcohol-related attentional bias predicted later alcohol use in young adolescents, approach biases did not. Baseline measures of impulsivity and alcohol use did not predict later alcohol-related cognitive biases. We discuss implications for cognitive models on the development of cognitive biases and their role in early addictive behaviors.
authors.affiliation: University of Amsterdam, Research Priority Area Yield, Weesperplein 4, 1018 XA Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: janssentim@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Janssen
authors.affiliation: University of Amsterdam, Research Priority Area Yield, Weesperplein 4, 1018 XA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Helle
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Larsen
authors.affiliation: Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wilma A M
authors.initials: WAM
authors.lastname: Vollebergh
authors.affiliation: University of Amsterdam, Research Priority Area Yield, Weesperplein 4, 1018 XA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Reinout W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Wiers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies
keywords: Adolescent alcohol use; Alcohol-related cognitive bias; Approach bias; Attentional bias; Impulsivity; Zero-inflated Poisson regression