College Students' Day-to-Day Maladaptive Drinking Responses to Stress Severity and Stressor-Related Guilt and Anger.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stress is a common part of college students' daily lives that may influence their physical activity (PA) and alcohol use. Understanding features of daily stress processes that predict health behaviors could help identify targets for just-in-time interventions.

Purpose

This study used intensive longitudinal data to examine whether prior day stress processes predict current day PA or alcohol use.

Methods

Participants (N=58, Mage=20.5, 59% women, 70% White) were 18-to-25-year-old students who engaged in binge drinking at least twice monthly and used cannabis or tobacco in the past year. They wore activity (activPAL4) and alcohol (Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor) monitors for 11 days to assess daily PA (e.g., step counts) and alcohol use (e.g., drinkin

SUBMITTER: Courtney JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11484590 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature