The role of affect, emotion management, and attentional bias in young adult drinking: An experience sampling study

Emery, Noah N.; Simons, Jeffrey S.

doi:10.1007/s00213-020-05480-5

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“…These authors also found that affective lability (or variability) was associated with between-person differences in alcohol dependence symptoms [29]. Of note, Emery & Simons [30] did not find daytime difficulty in managing emotions to be significantly associated with nighttime drinking.…”

Section: Alcohol Use and College Studentsmentioning

confidence: 89%

Emotion Dynamics as Predictors of Drinking Behavior: Idiographic and Pooled Approaches

Ashlock¹,

Soyster²,

Fisher³

2021

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The specific factors driving alcohol-related behavior and cognition likely vary from person to person. Many theories suggest emotions are pertinent to alcohol use. Emotions and how they change over time may provide an opportunity for more precise prediction of alcohol consumption. The present study applied statistical classification methods to idiographic time series data of emotions and emotion dynamics in order to identify person-specific and between-subjects predictors of future drinking-relevant behavior, affect, and cognition (N = 33). Participants were sent eight mobile phone surveys per day for 15 days. Each survey assessed the number of drinks consumed since the previous survey, as well as emotions, alcohol craving, and the desire to drink. Each participant’s EMA data were prepared for analysis separately. To estimate emotion dynamics, we utilized the Generalized Local Linear Approximation. The data collected from each individual were split into training and testing sets for out-of-sample, person-specific validation. Elastic net regularization was used to select a subset of emotion and emotion dynamic variables to be used in models that predicted either alcohol consumption, craving, or wanting to drink roughly two hours in the future. To compare predictive performance, we tested both person-specific and between-subject prediction models. Averaging across participants, out-of-sample predictions of future drinking using idiographic models were 69% accurate. For craving, the mean out-of-sample R² value was .13. For wanting to drink, the mean out-of-sample R² value was .16. Idiographic prediction models exceeded nomothetic models in prediction accuracy. Using person-specific emotion and emotion dynamics can help predict future drinking behaviors.

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Section: Alcohol Use and College Studentsmentioning

confidence: 89%

Emotion Dynamics as Predictors of Drinking Behavior: Idiographic and Pooled Approaches

Ashlock¹,

Soyster²,

Fisher³

2021

Preprint

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“…That being said, the effects for positive affect and positive urgency were moderate at best, with effect sizes close to zero retaining some posterior plausibility. Coupled with recent studies using college and young community samples showing mostly positive associations between positive affect and alcohol use on a daily level (for positive findings c.f., Dvorak et al, 2018 ; Emery and Simons, 2020 ; Russell et al, 2020 ; for null findings c.f., O’Donnell et al, 2019 ; Peacock et al, 2015 ), we treat our results as moderate evidence for the enhancement hypothesis in college students on a daily level. We did not only find a within-person effect of positive affect on drinking, but also showed that college students higher in positive urgency consume more alcohol and might drink especially more on days characterised by high positive affect.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

No evidence for trait- and state-level urgency moderating the daily association between negative affect and subsequent alcohol use in two college samples

Dora

Schultz

Shoda

et al. 2022

Brain and Neuroscience Advances

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It remains unclear whether the negative reinforcement pathway to problematic drinking exists, and if so, for whom. One idea that has received some support recently is that people who tend to act impulsively in response to negative emotions (i.e. people high in negative urgency) may specifically respond to negative affect with increased alcohol consumption. We tested this idea in a preregistered secondary data analysis of two ecological momentary assessment studies using college samples. Participants ( N = 226) reported on their current affective state multiple times per day and also the following morning reported alcohol use of the previous night. We assessed urgency both at baseline and during the momentary affect assessments. Results from our Bayesian model comparison procedure, which penalises increasing model complexity, indicate that no combination of the variables of interest (negative affect, urgency, and the respective interactions) outperformed a baseline model that included two known demographic predictors of alcohol use. A non-preregistered exploratory analysis provided some evidence for the effect of daily positive affect, positive urgency, as well as their interaction on subsequent alcohol use. Taken together, our results suggest that college students’ drinking may be better described by a positive rather than negative reinforcement cycle.

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“…If young adults do indeed drink to regulate negative affect, we would have found the opposite-participants would report drinking on days high in negative affect. Finding that mood was worse on abstinent days indicates nonsupport for the affect regulation hypothesis of drinking, which had mixed support in prior work as well (De Leon et al, 2020;Emery & Simons, 2020;Fairlie et al, 2019;Howard et al, 2015;Hussong et al, 2001;Stevenson et al, 2020;Treloar et al, 2015). Further, inconsistent This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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

Stevenson¹,

Parks²,

Patrick³

2023

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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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 men], and 3 = HID [8+ for women, 10+ for men]). Results: Young adults reported higher positive affect on drinking days and higher negative affect on nondrinking days. On days when young adults reported greater enhancement motives, positive affect was strongly related to HID. During the early COVID-19 pandemic, young adults were more likely to report drinking, but did not drink more heavily unless they also reported drinking for social motives. Conclusions: These results suggest that heightened social, coping, and enhancement motives are risk factors for drinking in young adults. They also suggest that young adults perceive their mood to be better on drinking days, particularly when they were drinking to enhance positive affect. Results are consistent with a positive affect regulation model (i.e., drinking to increase positive affect), but not a negative affect regulation model (i.e., drinking to cope with negative affect). Public Health Significance StatementYoung adults were more likely to drink on days when they also reported high positive affect and drank heavily when also drinking to enhance their positive affect. Young adults were less likely to drink on days with high negative affect, but if they did drink on those days, they drank more heavily. Drinking to have fun with friends was also associated with heavier drinking, particularly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The role of affect, emotion management, and attentional bias in young adult drinking: An experience sampling study

Cited by 26 publications

References 98 publications

Emotion Dynamics as Predictors of Drinking Behavior: Idiographic and Pooled Approaches

Emotion Dynamics as Predictors of Drinking Behavior: Idiographic and Pooled Approaches

No evidence for trait- and state-level urgency moderating the daily association between negative affect and subsequent alcohol use in two college samples

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

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