SynthesisPloS one2022
Towards an affect intensity regulation hypothesis: Systematic review and meta-analyses of the relationship between affective states and alcohol consumption.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data.Psychological bulletinPooled it
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- A Daily Diary Study of Positive Experiences and Alcohol Use Among Non-Abstaining Adults Aged 50+ Years.Journal of aging and health · 2026Article
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- Person-environment transactions of impulsive traits and day-level alcohol use: A narrative review.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Review
- Depressive and anxiety symptoms mediate the relationship between family support and alcohol relapse in transplant recipients with alcohol-associated liver disease.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A Longitudinal Examination of Stress, Affect Dynamics, and Alcohol-Related Outcomes Across Emerging Adulthood.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Drink and be merry? The impact of intoxication and affective social cues on social drinkers' emotional responses.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
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- Event-level risk for negative alcohol consequences in emerging adults: The role of affect, motivation, and context.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Article
- Modeling momentary reciprocal associations between negative affect and craving for alcohol and cannabis using dynamic structural equation modeling.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Article
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- A month in review: longitudinal dynamics between daily PTSD symptom networks, affect, and drinking behaviors in female college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Relations between Affect, Self-Efficacy, and Alcohol Expectancies in Adults Experiencing Homelessness.Addiction research & theory · 2024Article
- Links between psychopathological symptoms and cortical thickness in men with severe alcohol use disorder: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging study.Neuropsychopharmacology reports · 2023Article
- Disaggregating within- and between-person effects of affect on drinking behavior in a clinical sample with alcohol use disorder.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
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Abstract
While self-medication and positive and negative reinforcement models of alcohol use suggest that there is an association between daily affect and alcohol consumption, findings within the academic literature have been inconsistent. This pre-registered systematic review meta-analytically interrogated the results from studies amongst non-clinical populations that examine the relationship between daily affective states and alcohol consumption volume. PRISMA guided searches of PsychINFO, PsycARTICLES, Science Direct, PubMed, SCOPUS, and JSTOR databases were conducted. When both laboratory and field studies were included, meta-analyses with robust variance estimation yielded 53 eligible studies on negative affect (8355 participants, 127 effect sizes) and 35 studies for positive affect (6384 participants, 50 effect sizes). The significant pooled associations between intra-day affect and alcohol consumption were r = .09, [.03, .14] for negative affect, and r = .17, [.04, .30] for positive affect. A small-to-medium sized effect (d = .275, [.11, .44]) of negative affect on daily alcohol consumption volume was found in laboratory studies (14 studies, 1100 participants). While publication bias was suspected, P-curve analyses suggested that the results were unlikely to be the product of publication bias and p-hacking alone, and selection model analysis revealed no significant differences in results when publication bias was accounted for. For negative affect, using number of drinks as the measure of alcohol consumption was associated with lower effect sizes. For positive affect, the results demonstrated a decline of this observed effect over time. Overall, findings point towards the possibility of developing an affect intensity regulation theory of alcohol use. Conceptualizing the mood-alcohol nexus in terms of affect intensity regulation may afford a more parsimonious explanation of alcohol consumption rather than viewing the behavior as being shaped by either positive or negative affective states.
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