ACE Project Graduate Student Presents at UF CARE 10th Annual Symposium

23 May ACE Project Graduate Student Presents at UF CARE 10th Annual Symposium

On April 17th, 2023, ACE Project graduate student, Benjelene Sutherland, presented a research poster at the UF CARE 10th Annual Symposium, at the University of Florida. The poster was titled “Working memory alterations predict adolescent e-cigarette use and positive outcome expectancies via Alexithymia” and examined the interrelations between working memory, task performance, difficulty describing feelings, and adolescent e-cigarette use and positive outcome expectancies. The findings showed support for simple mediation via difficulty describing feelings, such that alterations in working memory were associated with more difficulty describing feelings and that in turn predicted more e-cigarette use and positive outcomes expectancies (i.e., believe that e-cigarettes would help with negative affect reduction). Benjelene Sutherland was also awarded the UF CARE annual symposium travel award that was funded by the Center for Addiction Research & Education, University of Florida.