Affective Instability and Alcohol Consumption: Ecological Momentary Assessment in an Adult Sample.

CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that consuming alcohol in response to affective instability was a within-person process, and that higher than a person's average levels of negative and positive affective instability may have a cumulative effect. Personalized interventions should identify days when affective instability is elevated and provide alternative, adaptive strategies for coping with emotional dysregulation. These interventions need to target instability in both negative and positive affect to counter their cumulative effect on alcohol consumption.
PMID: 31495381 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs - September 10, 2019 Category: Addiction Tags: J Stud Alcohol Drugs Source Type: research