| Abstract [eng] |
Comparison of Self-Reposted Measures and the Implicit Association Test in Identifying People Addicted to Alcohol. Gintarė Ivanauskė Vilnius University Vilnius, 2021 51 page Although alcohol addiction is one of the hot topics, researchers do not agree on the most efficient ways to determine addiction. Self-reported measures are widely criticized by the impartiality of the method. And methods that count on implicit associations has not been explored enough. The purpose of this study is to compare self-reported measures and the implicit association test, in order to identify people addicted to alcohol. To reach the goal 61 participant completed the study. 31 alcohol-dependent impatient was recruiter from Republican Center for Addictive Disorders, and 30 healthy subjects were recruited via online advertisement. There were 41 male participant and 20 females, who in general were from 23 to 71 year old. All participants completed AUDIT and SMAST (self-reported measures) and implicit association test. Within both groups correlation comparison was performed, as well as ROC analysis in the whole group. Despite the fact that results have shown only self-reported measure efficacy on identifying people addicted to alcohol, the results within different groups prompts that there are statistically significant differences between these groups. So the study shows that it is important to continue further research on implicit associations in order to better identify people addicted to alcohol. |
