Real-time impaired control over drinking: The role of contextual influences during naturally occurring drinking episodes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Impaired control over drinking is a central feature of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), yet little within-person research on impaired control is available. As a result, there is little research regarding the dynamic impact of social drinking context on impaired control. The current study sought to fill these gaps, testing a sequential mediation model wherein social drinking context predicted episode-specific deviations in perceived impaired control, which indirectly predicted daily negative consequences via drinking more than planned. We also modeled if estimated blood alcohol concentration (eBAC) moderated associations between social context and perceived impaired control.

Methods

Emerging adults (N = 131; 51.8 % female) completed 21 days of ecological momentary asses

SUBMITTER: Waddell JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12108543 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature