Drinking motives moderate daily-life associations between affect and alcohol use in individuals with borderline personality disorder.

ABSTRACT: People often report drinking to cope with negative affect (NA) or to enhance positive affect (PA). However, findings from daily life studies examining the interaction of motives and affect to predict alcohol use are mixed. Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) may be particularly susceptible to drinking for the purpose of changing affective states, representing a population in which these patterns may be more readily identifiable in daily life. We tested whether drinking motives moderate daily life associations between affect and drinking in individuals with BPD. Regular drinkers with BPD (N = 54; 81.5% female) completed ecological momentary assessments approximately 6-10 times daily for 21 days. We tested whether the interactions between (a) person-level coping mot

SUBMITTER: Wycoff AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7581565 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature