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Thursday, May 3, 2007

The Drinking-Induced Disinhibition Scale (DIDS): A measure of three types of disinhibiting effects
Addictive Behaviors
Volume 32, Issue 6, June 2007, Pages 1200-1219



Links between trait disinhibition and high-risk drinking are well established. It is also known that alcohol has disinhibiting effects. Nonetheless, there is no measure in the literature devoted exclusively to assessing disinhibiting effects of alcohol.

The multidimensional Drinking-Induced Disinhibition Scale (DIDS) was developed as part of Study I

The nine-item DIDS is comprised of three subscales assessing euphoric/social, dysphoric and sexual disinhibition.

A cluster analysis revealed four distinct disinhibition profiles (i.e., low effect drinker; high euphoric/social only; high euphoric social and dysphoric; high euphoric/social and sexual), which predicted likelihood of high-risk drinking.

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