Unplanned vs. planned drinking: Event-level influences of drinking motives and affect.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Problematic alcohol involvement in college students remains a public health concern and identifying factors that promote this consequential behavior as it occurs in daily life is critical. Recent work has found that whether a drinking event is unplanned vs. planned has implications for the risk of negative consequences, though less work has identified fine-grained predictors of these two types of drinking occasions.

Method

The present study examined drinking motives and positive and negative affect as predictors of unplanned vs. planned drinking in a sample of college students who completed 28 days of ecological momentary assessment (N = 96; 72% White; 52% female). We examined drinking motives reported at two points: (1) in real-time upon initiating drinking and (2

SUBMITTER: Stevens AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7572627 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature