Daily associations between affect, drinking motives, and drinking intensity among U.S. young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We investigated the relationships between daily affect, drinking motives, likelihood of drinking, and intensity of drinking, particularly high-intensity drinking (HID), in a sample of young adults. We also explored differences in our outcomes before versus during the early coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Method

In the springs of 2019 and 2020, young adult drinkers (N = 633) completed 14 consecutive morning surveys (each year) characterizing the prior day's affect, motives, and alcohol use. We examined between-person and within-person associations of affect and motives with two outcomes: any drinking and drinking intensity on drinking days (1 = moderate drinking [1-3 drinks for women, 1-4 drinks for men], 2 = binge drinking [4-7 for women, 5-9 for me

SUBMITTER: Stevenson BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9243186 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature