Craving Intensity
Dimension 267 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Craving Intensity measures the strength, frequency, and intrusiveness of urges to consume or use a desired substance or rewarding stimulus. It encompasses appetitive pull, temptation, difficulty resisting, and the felt pressure of wanting.
evidence final name · Substance use
Minimal Craving Intensity
Expressions activating this band do not show a clear pattern of urges or temptation and are largely unrelated to appetitive wanting. The proxy is effectively absent or only too weakly expressed to identify.
Low Craving Intensity
Expressions activating this band show occasional or indirect references to temptation, self-control, or exposure to potentially activating situations without a clearly felt urge. Wanting is present mainly as a possibility, context, or mild difficulty rather than a pressing experience.
Moderate Craving Intensity
Expressions activating this band describe recognizable urges, cravings, or appetite-driven impulses that require active resistance. Wanting is salient enough to shape behavior, such as avoiding triggers or struggling to stop once consumption begins.
High Craving Intensity
Expressions activating this band convey strong, recurrent urges that feel difficult to resist and are readily triggered by cues, deprivation, or tempting stimuli. Craving is experienced as forceful and behaviorally disruptive.
Severe Craving Intensity
Expressions activating this band describe intense and persistent cravings as a prominent internal state, often arising after going without the desired substance or in emotionally charged moments. Urges are experienced as powerful, specific, and central to ongoing self-regulation.
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Minimal Substance use: Expressions show no meaningful substance use content. The proxy is effectively absent. Expressions activating this band are unrelated to substance use.
Emerging Substance use: Substance use is present here in a general or mixed form without a single dominant facet. This is the first band where substance use becomes detectable. Expressions activating this band may reflect general or diffuse substance use.
Elevated Substance use: Substance use is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. Unlike the band below, where substance use was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band likely reflect substance use at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.
Severe Substance use: Substance use is experienced here as observable behavioral patterns associated with problematic or disordered functioning. Unlike the band below, where substance use was characterized by the clinical form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band engage with substance use at a level associated with formal behavioral assessment.