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. 2016 Jul:58:110-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.02.025. Epub 2016 Feb 17.

Day-to-day variations in high-intensity drinking, expectancies, and positive and negative alcohol-related consequences

Megan E Patrick  1 , Jessica M Cronce  2 , Anne M Fairlie  2 , David C Atkins  2 , Christine M Lee  2
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Day-to-day variations in high-intensity drinking, expectancies, and positive and negative alcohol-related consequences

Megan E Patrick et al. Addict Behav. 2016 Jul.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Alcohol; College; Consequences; Expectancies; Extreme binge drinking; High-intensity drinking.

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