Disentangling the within- and between-person aspects of implicit alcohol associations on hazardous drinking.

ABSTRACT: Indirect measures have been used to assess the strength of automatically activated, alcohol-related associations and their relation to hazardous drinking. However, little is known about the longitudinal contributions of between-person and within-person components of implicit alcohol associations (IAAs) to college students' hazardous drinking over time. This study examined how within- and between-person variability in three measures of IAA (drinking identity, alcohol approach, and alcohol excite) are related to hazardous drinking while controlling for their explicit, self-report counterparts. First- and second-year U.S. college students (N = 506; 57% female) completed web-based assessments once every 3 months up to eight assessments, which included IAA measures (Implicit Association

SUBMITTER: Shono Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10314812 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature