{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Jaffe AE"],"funding":["NICHD NIH HHS","NIAAA NIH HHS","NICHD","NIAAA"],"pagination":["107281"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8842409"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["129"],"pubmed_abstract":["During the COVID-19 pandemic, college students have experienced heightened stressors and reported stress-related drinking. To identify potential protective factors among college students, we investigate the possibility that finding meaning and purpose in one's life may lessen the strength of the association between stress and alcohol consumption in a multicohort sample of college students (N = 694; 64.8% women) recruited between November 2019 and September 2021. Consistent with expectations, negative binomial regressions revealed significant interactions, such that higher stress was only associated with more past-month alcohol use among individuals who reported low levels of meaning in life. The buffering role of meaning in life appeared to be robust; interaction results held when investig"],"journal":["Addictive behaviors"],"pubmed_title":["Meaning in life and stress-related drinking: A multicohort study of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic."],"pmcid":["PMC8842409"],"funding_grant_id":["T32 AA007455","F31 AA027471","F31 HD101271","K01 AA027771","R37 AA012547"],"pubmed_authors":["Hultgren BA","Smith-LeCavalier KN","Kumar SA","Larimer ME","Jaffe AE","Canning JR","Garcia TA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Meaning in life and stress-related drinking: A multicohort study of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic.","description":"During the COVID-19 pandemic, college students have experienced heightened stressors and reported stress-related drinking. To identify potential protective factors among college students, we investigate the possibility that finding meaning and purpose in one's life may lessen the strength of the association between stress and alcohol consumption in a multicohort sample of college students (N = 694; 64.8% women) recruited between November 2019 and September 2021. Consistent with expectations, negative binomial regressions revealed significant interactions, such that higher stress was only associated with more past-month alcohol use among individuals who reported low levels of meaning in life. The buffering role of meaning in life appeared to be robust; interaction results held when investig","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Jun","modification":"2025-05-18T12:07:40.696Z","creation":"2025-05-18T12:07:40.696Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8842409","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35189495"],"doi":["10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107281"]}}