Behavioral economics and the aggregate versus proximal impact of sociality on heavy drinking.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Behavioral economic theory predicts decisions to drink are cost benefit analyses, and heavy episodic drinking occurs when benefits outweigh costs. Social interaction is a known benefit associated with alcohol use. Although heavy drinking is typically considered more likely during more social drinking events, people who drink heavily in isolation tend to report greater severity of use. This study explicitly disaggregates between-person and within-person effects of sociality on heavy episodic drinking and examines behavioral economic moderators.

Methods

We used day-level survey data over an 18-week period in a community adult sample recruited through crowdsourcing (mTurk; N = 223). Behavioral economic indices were examined to determine if macro person-level variable

SUBMITTER: Acuff SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7889694 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature