Journal
ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages 110-116Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.02.025
Keywords
Extreme binge drinking; High-intensity drinking; Alcohol; College; Expectancies; Consequences
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [R01 AA023504, R01 AA016979]
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High-intensity drinking (i.e., women/men consuming 8+/10+ drinks in a day) is prevalent and associated with negative consequences. Occasions of high-intensity drinking have markedly high risk; however, previous research has not examined the predictors of these high-risk drinking days. The current study was designed to examine to what extent positive and negative alcohol expectancies predict high-intensity drinking and whether high-intensity drinking on a given day was associated with drinking consequences and their evaluations that day. Frequently drinking college students (N = 342) participated in an intensive longitudinal study of drinking behaviors (N = 4645 drinking days). Days with greater positive and negative expectancies were associated with high-intensity drinking. Days with high-intensity drinking were associated with reporting more positive and negative consequences and with evaluating positive consequences more favorably and evaluating negative consequences less favorably, compared to drinking days without high-intensity drinking. Given this, prevention and intervention efforts may consider specifically targeting high-intensity drinking events as a unique phenomenon. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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