Jonas Dora, Marilyn Piccirillo, Katherine T Foster, Kelly Arbeau, Stephen Armeli, Marc Auriacombe, Bruce Bartholow, Adriene M Beltz, Shari M Blumenstock, Krysten Bold, Erin E Bonar, Abby Braitman, Ryan W Carpenter, Kasey G Creswell, Tracy De Hart, Robert D Dvorak, Noah Emery, Matthew Enkema, Catharine Fairbairn, Anne M Fairlie, Stuart G Ferguson, Teresa Freire, Fallon Goodman, Nisha Gottfredson, Max Halvorson, Maleeha Haroon, Andrea L Howard, Andrea Hussong, Kristina M Jackson, Tiffany Jenzer, Dominic P Kelly, Adam M Kuczynski, Alexis Kuerbis, Christine M Lee, Melissa Lewis, Ashley N Linden-Carmichael, Andrew Littlefield, David M Lydon-Staley, Jennifer E Merrill, Robert Miranda, Cynthia Mohr, Jennifer P Read, Clarissa Richardson, Roisin O'Connor, Stephanie S O'Malley, Lauren Papp, Thomas M Piasecki, Paul Sacco, Nichole Scaglione, Fuschia Serre, Julia Shadur, Kenneth J Sher, Yuichi Shoda, Tracy L Simpson, Michele R Smith, Angela Stevens, Brittany Stevenson, Howard Tennen, Michael Todd, Hayley Treloar Padovano, Timothy Trull, Jack Waddell, Katherine Walukevich-Dienst, Katie Witkiewitz, Tyler Wray, Aidan G C Wright, Andrea M Wycoff, Kevin M King
Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary and ecological momentary assessment research, it remains unclear whether people consume more alcohol on days they experience higher negative and positive affect in everyday life. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we synthesized the evidence for these daily associations between affect and alcohol use. We included individual participant data from 69 studies ( N = 12,394), which used daily and momentary surveys to assess affect and the number of alcoholic drinks consumed...
2023: Psychological Bulletin