SynthesisPloS one2019
The contexts of heavy drinking: A systematic review of the combinations of context-related factors associated with heavy drinking occasions.
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- Identifying dominant factors that impact hazardous alcohol use among sexual and gender minority groups.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
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- Identifying salient social, environmental, and situational contexts of college drinking: Impacts across drinking outcomes.The American journal on addictions · 2025Article
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- Alcohol Consumption and Beverage Preferences in a Predominantly Female, Highly Educated Spanish Population: A Sociodemographic and Network Analysis.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Are you feeling what I'm feeling? Momentary interactions between personal and perceived peer subjective response predict craving and continued drinking in young adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Exploring associations between drinking contexts and alcohol consumption: An analysis of photographs.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Social/Party Incentives Increase the Risk of Heavier Alcohol Use in Impulsive Individuals.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- First semester college experiences: Associations with substance use and mental health.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Drinking contexts, coping motive, simultaneous cannabis use, and high-intensity drinking among adults in the United States.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe amount of alcohol consumed during an occasion can be influenced by physical and social attributes of the setting, characteristics and state of individuals, and the interactions of these components. This systematic review identifies and describes the specific combinations and sequences of context-related factors that are associated with heavy drinking occasions. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe conducted a systematic literature search of MEDLINE, Embase and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) databases. Eligible articles were event-level and event-based studies that quantitatively analysed associations of sequences or combinations of context-related factors with event-level alcohol consumption. We extracted information on study design, sample, variables, effect estimates and analytical methods. We compiled a list of combinations and sequences associated with heavier drinking (i.e., 'risky contexts') and with lighter drinking ('protective contexts'). The review protocol was registered with PROSPERO (registration number: CRD42018089500).
resultsWe screened 1902 retrieved records and identified a final sample of 65 eligible studies. Daily mood, day of week, location and drinking group characteristics are important drivers of whether an individual engages in a heavy drinking occasion. The direction and magnitude of some associations differed by gender, age, personality and motives, such that in particular social or physical contexts, some people may feel compelled to drink more while others are compelled to drink less. Very few sequences of factors were reported as being associated with event-level alcohol consumption.
conclusionsContexts or factors are experienced in specific sequences that shape the broader drinking context and influence drinking behaviours and consequences but are under-studied. Event-level studies such as those using ecological momentary assessment can harness new technologies for data collection and analysis to improve understandings of why people engage in heavy drinking. Continued event-level research will facilitate public health interventions and policies that reduce heavy drinking and alcohol-related harms.
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