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SALLIE 1p , VIOLETA CASERO 1 , SAURABH SONKUSARE 1  and VALERIE VOON 1,2   \n1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom  \n2 Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China  \nReceived: May 22, 2025 • Revised manuscript received: August 25, 2025; September 17, 2025 • Accepted: September 25, 2025  \nPublished online: November 19, 2025  \nABSTRACT  \nBackground and aims: Dysregulation in instrumental control systems is implicated in compulsivity, atransdiagnostic construct proposed to underlie diverse maladaptive behaviors. While habit formation in reward-based learning is well-characterized, its role in avoidance learning remains less understood. Habitual avoidance may contribute to compulsive symptoms by impairing emotion regulation, a wellestablished correlate of compulsivity. To define these mechanisms, this study examined negative emotionality as a pathway linking habitual avoidance to compulsive behaviors. Methods: Five hundred adults completed the Avoidance Dynamics Task (ADT), a novel online-administered aversive devaluation paradigm assessing avoidance learning and habit strength, alongside validated self-report measures of compulsive behaviors (alcohol use, binge eating, binge watching, gambling, obsessivecompulsive symptoms) and internalizing symptoms (depression, anxiety) . Mediation analysis tested whether internalizing symptoms accounted for associations between habitual avoidance and compulsive behavior severity. Results: Habitual avoidance, indexed by perseverative responses to devalued threat versus control cues (t 5 3.5, p 5 .002), showed small-to-moderate positive associations with avoidance urges (ρ 5 .28, p \u003C .001), regulatory control deficits (ρ 5 .17, p \u003C .001), and internalizing symptoms (b 5 .15, p 5 .004) . Internalizing symptoms fully mediated associations with all compulsive behaviors (b’s 5 .05–.16, all p ≤ .01) . Impaired avoidance learning was modestly associated with greater alcohol use (b 5 􀀁 .12, p 5 .03) and gambling (b 5 􀀁 .15, p 5 .02) severity. Exploratory analyses showed distinct avoidance patterns mapped onto cognitive (preoccupation, urges) versus behavioral (control, frequency) components of alcohol-related compulsivity. Conclusion: Habitual avoidance may represent a transdiagnostic behavioral marker of compulsivity. These findings underscore distinct vulnerability pathways across compulsive domains and support the use of remote tasks to phenotype maladaptive avoidance and related emotional dysregulation.  \nKEYWORDS  \naddiction, avoidance, compulsivity, habit, negative emotionality, transdiagnostic  \nINTRODUCTION  \nCompulsivity, which involves repetitive patterns of thought and behavior experienced with reduced voluntary control and persisting despite negative consequences (Luigjes et al., 2019), is implicated across psychiatric domains, most notably obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), binge-eating disorder (BED), and addiction (Robbins, Banca, & Belin, 2024) . Addictions are commonly conceptualized along an impulsivity–compulsivity spectrum, progressing from rash, reward-driven responding to rigid patterns (Everitt & Robbins, 2016) . This trajectory has been described across both substance-related (e.g., alcohol use disorder, AUD) and behavioral (e.g., gambling disorder, GD) addictions (Brooks, Lochner, Shoptaw, & Stein, 2017; Demetrovics, van den Brink, Paksi, Horváth, & Maraz, 2022) and may extend to  \n‘addictive-like’ behaviors not formally classified as disorders, such as binge-watching, where preliminary evidence links loss-of-control and preoccupation to psychosocial impairment (Flayelle et al., ","cbCaidPfu4XIc8i7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidPfu4XIc8i7","pdf",1374353,16,"English","# Abstract\n## Background and aims\n## Methods\n## Results\n## Conclusion\n# Introduction","[{\"question\":\"What is the study trying to explain about compulsivity?\",\"answer\":\"The study investigates how habitual avoidance may contribute to compulsive behaviors through a pathway involving negative emotionality and emotion regulation.\"},{\"question\":\"How were habitual avoidance and avoidance learning measured?\",\"answer\":\"Participants completed the Avoidance Dynamics Task (ADT), an online aversive devaluation paradigm assessing avoidance learning and habit strength.\"},{\"question\":\"What role did internalizing symptoms play in the results?\",\"answer\":\"Internalizing symptoms fully mediated the associations between habitual avoidance and the severity of all compulsive behaviors examined.\"}]","Mapping affective pathways to compulsion - Insights from an aversive devaluation approach | PDF",1790690111]