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Table 2 Automatic appetitive responses to alcohol moderate the relation between readiness to change drinking and 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

0.08

F (2, 83) = 3.63

0.21

 

RTC Difference

  

−0.20

Step 2

 

IAT x RTC Difference

0.05

F (1, 82) = 4.84

0.23*

  1. Note: Change in quantity of alcohol consumed per occasion = follow-up quantity/occasion – baseline quantity/occasion (larger values indicate increased consumption); RTC Difference = post-intervention Readiness to Change Ladder – baseline Readiness to Change Ladder (larger values indicate greater motivation to reduce drinking); IAT score (larger scores = stronger automatic appetitive responses toward alcohol).
  2. *p < 0.05.