Journal article
Changes in Affect and Alcohol Craving During Naturally Occurring Drinking Episodes: The Role of Day-Level Drinking Motives
Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, Vol.31(3), pp.621-632
06/01/2023
DOI: 10.1037/pha0000600
PMCID: PMC10014486
PMID: 36107701
Abstract
Public Health Significance Findings suggest that coping motives may operate differently at the event- and person-levels of analysis. For many drinkers, occasional use of alcohol to cope with negative moods may be a self-limiting phenomenon. However, postdrinking mood changes may promote desire for continued alcohol use in drinkers who habitually turn to alcohol for affective relief.
Day-level drinking motives are associated with intensity of drinking and occurrence of negative consequences. However, little is known about how day-level drinking motives relate to alcohol craving, an approach-oriented motivational state proximal to continued drinking. This study tested whether day-level (and between-person) drinking motives were associated with craving during drinking episodes and whether this effect varied by drinking-induced changes in negative/positive affect (PA). Emerging adults (N = 114) took part in up to two waves of 21-day ecological momentary assessments. Participants reported positive/negative affect (NA) prior to and during drinking episodes, drinking motives at beginning of episodes, and craving during all drink reports. Analyses tested whether day-level and between-person (aggregated) drinking motives were associated with heightened craving and whether any effects on craving were moderated by drinking-induced changes in affect. A significant interaction emerged for day-level coping by negative affect, such that higher-than-average coping was associated with less drinking-induced craving when negative affect decreased relative to predrinking levels. However, interactions of between-person coping by negative and positive affect also emerged, such that higher person-level coping was associated with more drinking-induced craving when negative affect and positive affect increased. Day-level and between-person conformity motives by negative affect interactions were also detected, such that higher day-level and between-person conformity motives were associated with more drinking-induced craving when negative affect decreased. Relations between day-level motivation and craving may be sensitive to changes in negative/positive affect while drinking. Future research is needed to differentiate mechanisms through which person-level versus day-level motives relate to craving.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Changes in Affect and Alcohol Craving During Naturally Occurring Drinking Episodes: The Role of Day-Level Drinking Motives
- Creators
- Jack T. Waddell - Arizona State UniversityBruce D. Bartholow - University of MissouriThomas M. Piasecki - University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, Vol.31(3), pp.621-632
- DOI
- 10.1037/pha0000600
- PMID
- 36107701
- PMCID
- PMC10014486
- NLM abbreviation
- Exp Clin Psychopharmacol
- ISSN
- 1064-1297
- eISSN
- 1936-2293
- Publisher
- Amer Psychological Assoc
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- T32-DA039772 / National Institute on Drug Abuse; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) R01-AA025451 / National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2023
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984446265402771
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