TY - JOUR
T1 - State impulsivity amplifies urges without diminishing self-control
AU - van Baal, Simon Thomas
AU - Moskovsky, Neda
AU - Hohwy, Jakob
AU - Verdejo-García, Antonio
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to acknowledge Dr. Peter Koval and his team for providing access to the Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment (SEMA) app. This study was funded by the Australian Research Council grant ARC DP180100245. The funding source was not involved in the research conducted for this project. Informed consent was obtained from all participants and the project was approved by the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (Project ID: 11999).
Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Australian Research Council grant ARC DP180100245. The funding source was not involved in the research conducted for this project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - A disproportionate amount of research on impulsivity has focused on trait-related aspects rather than state fluctuations. As a result, the relationship between state impulsivity and moment-to-moment behaviour is unclear. Impulsivity is assumed to negatively affect self-control, but an alternative explanation, yet to be tested, could be that changes in state impulsivity and its homeostatic drivers influence the intensity of urges. We tested whether state impulsivity and hunger affected behaviour through a dual-process model, affecting both the experience of various urges, and self-control, using a smartphone-based experience sampling approach. We found that state impulsivity is associated with stronger urges, but we found no evidence of an association with diminished self-control. Being hungry amplifies urges across different types of urges, and both hunger and late hours are negatively related to the likelihood of controlling urges. These findings imply that the influence of hunger is not limited to the food domain, and provide new insight into the role of state impulsivity in daily life.
AB - A disproportionate amount of research on impulsivity has focused on trait-related aspects rather than state fluctuations. As a result, the relationship between state impulsivity and moment-to-moment behaviour is unclear. Impulsivity is assumed to negatively affect self-control, but an alternative explanation, yet to be tested, could be that changes in state impulsivity and its homeostatic drivers influence the intensity of urges. We tested whether state impulsivity and hunger affected behaviour through a dual-process model, affecting both the experience of various urges, and self-control, using a smartphone-based experience sampling approach. We found that state impulsivity is associated with stronger urges, but we found no evidence of an association with diminished self-control. Being hungry amplifies urges across different types of urges, and both hunger and late hours are negatively related to the likelihood of controlling urges. These findings imply that the influence of hunger is not limited to the food domain, and provide new insight into the role of state impulsivity in daily life.
KW - Craving
KW - Ecological momentary assessment
KW - Hunger
KW - Impulsivity
KW - Self-control
KW - Urges
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131507562&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107381
DO - 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107381
M3 - Article
C2 - 35659692
AN - SCOPUS:85131507562
SN - 0306-4603
VL - 133
JO - Addictive Behaviors
JF - Addictive Behaviors
M1 - 107381
ER -
