The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data

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• Alternative Title:
  Psychol Bull
• Personal Author:
  Dora, Jonas ; Piccirillo, Marilyn ; Foster, Katherine T. ; Arbeau, Kelly ; Armeli, Stephen ; Auriacombe, Marc ; Bartholow, Bruce ; Beltz, Adriene M. ; Blumenstock, Shari M. ; Bold, Krysten ; Bonar, Erin E. ; Braitman, Abby ; Carpenter, Ryan W. ; Creswell, Kasey G. ; De Hart, Tracy ; Dvorak, Robert D. ; Emery, Noah ; Enkema, Matthew ; Fairbairn, Catharine ; Fairlie, Anne M. ; Ferguson, Stuart G. ; Freire, Teresa ; Goodman, Fallon ; Gottfredson, Nisha ; Halvorson, Max ; Haroon, Maleeha ; Howard, Andrea L. ; Hussong, Andrea ; Jackson, Kristina M. ; Jenzer, Tiffany ; Kelly, Dominic P. ; Kuczynski, Adam M. ; Kuerbis, Alexis ; Lee, Christine M. ; Lewis, Melissa ; Linden-Carmichael, Ashley N. ; Littlefield, Andrew ; Lydon-Staley, David M. ; Merrill, Jennifer E. ; Miranda, Robert ; Mohr, Cynthia ; Read, Jennifer P. ; Richardson, Clarissa ; O’Connor, Roisin ; O’Malley, Stephanie S. ; Papp, Lauren ; Piasecki, Thomas M. ; Sacco, Paul ; Scaglione, Nichole ; Serre, Fuschia ; Shadur, Julia ; Sher, Kenneth J. ; Shoda, Yuichi ; Simpson, Tracy L. ; Smith, Michele R. ; Stevens, Angela ; Stevenson, Brittany ; Tennen, Howard ; Todd, Michael ; Treloar Padovano, Hayley ; Trull, Timothy ; Waddell, Jack ; Walukevich-Dienst, Katherine ; Witkiewitz, Katie ; Wray, Tyler ; Wright, Aidan G.C. ; Wycoff, Andrea M. ; King, Kevin M.
• Description:
  Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary and ecological momentary assessment research, it remains unclear whether people consume more alcohol on days they experience higher negative and positive affect in everyday life. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we synthesized the evidence for these daily associations between affect and alcohol use. We included individual participant data from 69 studies (| = 12,394), which used daily and momentary surveys to assess affect and the number of alcoholic drinks consumed. Results indicate that people are not more likely to drink on days they experience high negative affect, but are more likely to drink and drink heavily on days high in positive affect. People self-reporting a motivational tendency to drink-to-cope and drink-to-enhance consumed more alcohol, but not on days they experienced higher negative and positive affect. Results were robust across different operationalizations of affect, study designs, study populations, and individual characteristics. These findings challenge the long-held belief that people drink more alcohol following increases in negative affect. Integrating these findings under different theoretical models and limitations of this field of research, we collectively propose an agenda for future research to explore open questions surrounding affect and alcohol use.
• Subjects:
  Affect Alcohol Drinking Ecological Momentary Assessment Humans Motivation Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Affect Alcohol Use Drinking Motives Emotion Meta-analysis
• Source:
  Psychol Bull. 149(1-2):1-24
• Pubmed ID:
  37560174
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10409490
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 AA025969/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; L30 AA027041/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R21 AA017135/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P50 AA003510/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K12 DA000167/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R21 AA024156/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K23 AA024808/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA025451/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K01 DA035153/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P01 AA019072/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R21 AA018336/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA016621/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA020077/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; F31 AA023447/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P60 AA011998/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA025936/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T32 AA007455/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA025611/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 DA047247/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K01 AA022938/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T32 DA037183/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R21 AA017273/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P50 DA039838/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K02 AA028832/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA025037/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T32 AA007290/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R03 AA014598/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K01 DA047417/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T03 OH008435/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA007850/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K99 AA029459/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R21 MH069472/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA015553/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R21 DA038163/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA028488/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K01 AA013938/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K01 AA026854/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K23 AA029729/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; F31 AA024372/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  149
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1b7305762236ec30b61be054ce8a5864416830718e0482b0a2a4acd842007d61b4067a1b1272c2a04e6d341bd9f35149ebcf93c6eb0a5c777ceed06672887c23
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