Daily Mood-Drinking Slopes as Predictors: a New Take on Drinking Motives and Related Outcomes

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Title: Daily Mood-Drinking Slopes as Predictors: a New Take on Drinking Motives and Related Outcomes
Identifier: fac_pubs/28
Date: 12/1/2013
Abstract: Motivational models of alcohol consumption have articulated the manner in which positive and negative experiences motivate drinking in unique social contexts (e.g., Cooper, Frone, Russell & Mudar, 1995). Daily process methodology, in which daily events, moods and drinking behaviors are reported daily or multiple times per day, has been used to examine behavioral patterns that are consistent with discrete motivations. We advance the notion that repeated patterns of drinking in various social contexts as a function of positive or negative mood increases can provide evidence of individual-level if-then drinking signatures, which in turn can predict drinking-related outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of slopes to predict longer term drinking motivations and alcohol problems, employing a daily process study of non-clinical moderate alcohol drinkers (N=47; 49% women). Participants responded to thrice daily interviews administered via handheld computer for 30 days, followed by a longitudinal telephone survey for 12 months. Participants’ daily mood-drinking relationships were extracted from HLM and employed as predictors of 12-month outcomes in multiple regression analyses. Daily mood-drinking patterns demonstrated significant variability across persons, such that moderate drinkers could be reliably differentiated based on those patterns in terms of distinct drinking-related outcomes. Among the results, negative mood-solitary drinking slopes were associated with lower subsequent coping motives; yet, positive mood-solitary drinking slopes were predictive of higher coping and lower social motives. Conversely, positive mood-social drinking associations were predictive of higher enhancement motives and b-MAST scores. Results are interpreted in light of motivational models of consumption.
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Language: eng
Type: Text
department or school name within institution: Psychological Sciences
Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
volume: 27
issue: 4
page start: 944
page end: 955
note: This article may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.
funded by: This research was supported by National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grants R03-AA014598 and R29AA09917 and by a Faculty Enhancement Grant and Summer Research Institute support from Portland State University.
Creator: Cynthia D Mohr; Debi Brannan; Staci Wendt; Laurie Jacobs; Robert Wright; Mo Wang
Subject: drinking motives; moderate drinking; mood-drinking slopes; daily process methodology; slopes as predictors