To drink or not to drink: When drinking intentions predict alcohol consumption and consequences.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examined daily associations between drinking intentions and drinking behaviour and tested past drinking behaviour and current social environment as potential moderators of the daily intention-behaviour association. We expected both more frequent past drinking and being in a high drinking environment to weaken the intention-behaviour association. We also tested intentionality as a moderator of the association between alcohol consumption and next-day negative outcomes, expecting that less intentional alcohol consumption would be related to greater stress and regret.

Design

We tested these hypotheses using two separate micro-longitudinal studies of college students (Ns = 1,641, 540).

Methods

In two samples, participants completed bursts of data collection i

SUBMITTER: Hamilton HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8934747 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature