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Table 1 Automatic appetitive responses to alcohol moderate the effect of an intervention on changes in alcohol consumed per occasion (N = 87)

From: When wanting to change is not enough: automatic appetitive processes moderate the effects of a brief alcohol intervention in hazardous-drinking college students

 

Variable

R-squared change

F-change

Beta

Change in quantity of alcohol consumed per occasion between baseline & follow-up

Step 1

 

IAT Score

0.04

F (2, 84) = 1.83

0.21

 

Group Condition

  

−0.02

Step 2

 

IAT x Group Condition

0.08

F (1, 83) = 7.62

0.29*

  1. Note: Change in quantity of alcohol consumed per occasion = follow-up quantity/occasion – baseline quantity/occasion (larger values indicate increased consumption); Group Condition (0 = Control; 1 = Intervention); IAT score (larger scores = stronger automatic appetitive responses toward alcohol)
  2. *p < 0.05.