Observational studyAddiction (Abingdon, England)2016
Cannabis and alcohol use, affect and impulsivity in psychiatric out-patients' daily lives.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cannabis use and suicide in people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal, case control, and cross-sectional studies.Psychological medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Medical and non-medical marijuana use in depression: Longitudinal associations with suicidal ideation, everyday functioning, and psychiatry service utilization.Journal of affective disorders · 2018Trial
- Adverse impact of marijuana use on clinical outcomes among psychiatry patients with depression and alcohol use disorder.Psychiatry research · 2018Trial
- Testing the robustness of daily associations of affect with alcohol and cannabis use.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- Impulsivity as a dynamic mechanism linking young adult sleep and drinking behavior during naturally occurring drinking episodes.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
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- Examining dynamic patterns of problematic cannabis use: Results from a multilevel network analysis.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- The underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minorities in research on co-use of nicotine, alcohol, and/or cannabis via ecological momentary assessment methods: A narrative review.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Review
- Trait impulsivity moderates rate of alcohol consumption in daily life.Addictive behaviors · 2024Article
- Self-Protection in the Social Context: A Daily-Level Examination of Young Adult Women's Perceived Need for and Engagement in Sexual Assault Protective Behavioral Strategies.Psychology of violence · 2024Article
- Too Tired to Think: Within and Between-Person Relations Among Impulsive Traits, Sleep Duration, and Mental Health Outcomes.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2024Article
- The role of impulsivity in the relationship between affect and alcohol consumption in young adults.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Predicting quantity of cannabis smoked in daily life: An exploratory study using machine learning.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Impulsivity typologies and simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Exploring associations between affect and marijuana use in everyday life via specification curve analysis.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- The predictive role of impulsivity and perceived social support in psychiatric symptoms of women with methamphetamine use disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Ecological Momentary Assessment of Cannabis Use and Affect Among Adolescents Following Psychiatric Discharge.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Article
- Examining Differences in Emotion Dysregulation Between Emerging Adult Alcohol-Only Users, Abstainers, and Simultaneous Users.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2023Article
- Association of Recreational Cannabis Legalization With Alcohol Use Among Adults in the US, 2010 to 2019.JAMA health forum · 2022Article
- Does cannabis use in adolescence predict self-harm or suicide? Results from a Finnish Birth Cohort Study.Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsCannabis and alcohol are the most commonly used (il)licit drugs world-wide. We compared the effects of cannabis and alcohol use on within-person changes in impulsivity, hostility and positive affect at the momentary and daily levels, as they occurred in daily life.
designObservational study involving ecological momentary assessments collected via electronic diaries six random times a day for 28 consecutive days.
settingOut-patients' everyday life contexts in Columbia, MO, USA.
participantsNinety-three adult psychiatric out-patients (85% female; mean = 30.9 years old) with borderline personality or depressive disorders, who reported using only cannabis (n = 3), only alcohol (n = 58) or both (n = 32) at least once during the study period. MEASUREMENTS: Real-time, standard self-report measures of impulsivity, hostility and positive affect, as impacted by momentary reports of cannabis and alcohol use.
findingsCannabis use was associated with elevated feelings of impulsivity at the day level [b = 0.83, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.17-1.49] and increased hostility at the momentary (b = 0.07, 95% CI = 0.01-0.12) and person (b = 0.81, 95% CI = 0.15-1.47) level. Alcohol use was associated with elevated feelings of impulsivity at the momentary (b = 0.42, 95% CI = 0.13-0.71) and day levels (b = 0.82, 95% CI = 0.22-1.41) and increased positive affect at the momentary (b = 0.12, 95% CI = 0.06-0.18) and day (b = 0.33, 95% CI = 0.16-0.49) levels.
conclusionsCannabis and alcohol use are associated with increases in impulsivity (both), hostility (cannabis) and positive affect (alcohol) in daily life, and these effects are part of separate processes that operate on different time-scales (i.e. momentary versus daily).
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