Individual, interpersonal, and contextual factors associated with discrepancies between intended and actual spring break drinking

Lee, Christine M.; Patrick, Megan E.; Geisner, Irene M.; Mastroleo, Nadine R.; Mittmann, Angela; Zimmerman, Lindsey

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.01.006

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“…Trim and colleagues (2011) examined intentions of getting drunk and found that 24% of college students who reported no intention to get drunk on a given night consumed five or more drinks that same night. Lee et al (2017b) found similar results examining drinking during college student spring break, with 29% underestimating the amount of alcohol consumed. Men and fraternity/sorority members were more likely to underestimate the maximum number of drinks they would consume on a single day during spring break.…”

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“…Research suggests that young adults do underestimate the amount of alcohol they will consume on a given night or special occasion (Brister et al, 2010;Lee et al, 2017b;Pearson & Henson, 2013;Trim et al, 2011). In crosssectional work, Pearson and Henson (2013) found that a higher tendency to engage in unplanned drinking was associated with more consequences among college students.…”

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Unplanned Heavy Episodic and High-Intensity Drinking: Daily-Level Associations With Mood, Context, and Negative Consequences

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Cadigan

Patrick

et al. 2019

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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Underestimating how much one will drink has been associated with greater alcohol-related consequences. Elevated mood or drinking context may relate to drinking more than planned (or intended) among college students. The aims of the current study were to test (a) whether positive and negative mood and contextual factors on a given day were associated with the likelihood of unplanned heavy drinking (defined as unplanned heavy episodic or high-intensity drinking), and (b) whether days with unplanned heavy drinking were associated with more negative consequences. Method: The analytic sample included 352 college students (53.4% female; 71.3% non-Hispanic White) who completed daily assessments via automated telephone interviews. Multilevel models were used to test predictors of unplanned heavy drinking (Aim 1) and predictors of consequences (Aim 2). Results: Almost a third (29.60%) of drinking days were unplanned heavy drinking days. Individuals with higher average positive mood across the sampled days had lower odds of unplanned heavy drinking. No significant associations were observed between negative mood and unplanned heavy drinking. We ekend days and days with special occasions were associated with lower odds of unplanned heavy drinking. Unplanned heavy drinking was associated with more negative consequences on that day. Conclusions: Students were frequently not able to accurately predict the amount of alcohol they would consume on that day, which conferred an increased risk of negative consequences. Interventions could incorporate strategies that help students anticipate their alcohol consumption in order to employ protective behavioral strategies in high-risk contexts.

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Section: Drinking Intentions Versus Consumptionmentioning

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Unplanned Heavy Episodic and High-Intensity Drinking: Daily-Level Associations With Mood, Context, and Negative Consequences

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Cadigan

Patrick

et al. 2019

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…Changes in peer groups may correspond to changes in injunctive norms, and peer groups as a whole may also shift in drinking norms and patterns over time. Indeed, students’ drinking behaviors increase around high-risk events (e.g., football games, spring break) and decrease during demanding academic periods (e.g., Lee et al, 2017; Neal & Fromme, 2007). Despite these indications, it remains unclear whether perceptions of injunctive norms of alcohol use fluctuate, and if so, whether this variability is associated with students’ subsequent alcohol use.…”

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The dynamic nature of injunctive drinking norms and within-person associations with college student alcohol use.

Graupensperger¹,

Jaffe²,

Hultgren³

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Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Objective: Perceptions of friends’ approval of drinking behaviors (i.e., injunctive drinking norms) play a central role in shaping college students’ alcohol use behaviors. However, we know little about the extent that students’ perceptions of friends’ approval fluctuate over time and whether there are within-person associations between these injunctive norms and alcohol use. To fill this knowledge gap, we estimated within-person variability in perceptions of friends’ approval of alcohol use across a 12-month period and examined within-person associations between perceptions of friends’ approval and 3 discrete drinking behaviors: number of weekly drinks, hazardous drinking behaviors, and peak estimated blood-alcohol content (peak-eBAC). Method: A sample of college students (N = 433, 54.82% female, Mage = 20.06) reported perceptions of friends’ approval of alcohol use and indices of alcohol use behavior at 4 timepoints across a single year. Results: Descriptive estimates of within-person variability of perceived friends’ approval revealed that these perceptions fluctuated considerably across the 4 timepoints. After accounting for between-person effects, longitudinal multilevel modeling revealed significant within-person associations between perceptions of friends’ approval and (a) number of weekly drinks, (b) hazardous drinking behaviors, and (c) peak-eBAC levels. Students reported heavier alcohol use at timepoints when they perceived their friends as being more approving than usual. Conclusions: Alongside advancing theoretical understanding of social influences on students’ alcohol use, the current findings hold important clinical implications for norms-based harm-reduction strategies. To optimize interventions, norms-based approaches may need to be adaptive over time (e.g., boosters) to map onto within-person fluctuations in perceived injunctive norms.

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“…Yet, few studies have looked at the link between unplanned drinking or drinking intentions and consequences at the event-level. Among these, Lee, Patrick, et al (2017) found that college students who consumed more than they expected to on the heaviest day of spring break also reported more consequences. Similarly, intentions to drink on a given day are associated with higher consumption that same day (Stevens, Littlefield, Talley, & Brown, 2017).…”

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The relationship between unplanned drinking and event-level alcohol-related outcomes.

Lauher¹,

Merrill²,

Boyle³

et al. 2020

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Alcohol misuse among college students is a persistent public health problem. Identifying the circumstances which influence alcohol misuse can inform the development of interventions to reduce risk for adverse outcomes in this population. Prior research suggests that people who engage in unplanned drinking report more alcohol-related consequences, and that unplanned heavy drinking is associated with consequences at the within-person level. The present study involved exploration of the within-person relationship between drinking events that were unplanned (vs. planned) in the morning and later quantity consumed, negative and positive consequences, and overall event evaluations. College student drinkers (N ϭ 96) provided data on their drinking experiences each morning during a 28-day ecological momentary assessment study. Hierarchical linear models revealed that unplanned drinking events were associated with lower alcohol quantity, fewer alcohol-related consequences, and lower ratings on how "worth it" the drinking event was, compared to planned events. In contrast to prior work highlighting the risk associated with unplanned heavy drinking, our findings indicate that drinking events that are planned (vs. unplanned) are related to increased consumption and the experience of negative consequences. Additional research is needed to more definitively assess the differences between planned and unplanned drinking events and their relationship to adverse alcohol-related outcomes among college students.

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Individual, interpersonal, and contextual factors associated with discrepancies between intended and actual spring break drinking

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

Unplanned Heavy Episodic and High-Intensity Drinking: Daily-Level Associations With Mood, Context, and Negative Consequences

Unplanned Heavy Episodic and High-Intensity Drinking: Daily-Level Associations With Mood, Context, and Negative Consequences

The dynamic nature of injunctive drinking norms and within-person associations with college student alcohol use.

The relationship between unplanned drinking and event-level alcohol-related outcomes.

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