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Language-based EMA assessments help understand problematic alcohol consumption.
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- المؤلفون: Nilsson, August Håkan1,2 (AUTHOR) ; Schwartz, Hansen Andrew3 (AUTHOR); Rosenthal, Richard N.4 (AUTHOR); McKay, James R.5 (AUTHOR); Vu, Huy3 (AUTHOR); Cho, Young-Min1 (AUTHOR); Mahwish, Syeda3 (AUTHOR); Ganesan, Adithya V.3 (AUTHOR); Ungar, Lyle1 (AUTHOR)
- المصدر:
PLoS ONE. 3/6/2024, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p1-20. 20p.
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- معلومة اضافية
- نبذة مختصرة :
Background: Unhealthy alcohol consumption is a severe public health problem. But low to moderate alcohol consumption is associated with high subjective well-being, possibly because alcohol is commonly consumed socially together with friends, who often are important for subjective well-being. Disentangling the health and social complexities of alcohol behavior has been difficult using traditional rating scales with cross-section designs. We aim to better understand these complexities by examining individuals' everyday affective subjective well-being language, in addition to rating scales, and via both between- and within-person designs across multiple weeks. Method: We used daily language and ecological momentary assessment on 908 US restaurant workers (12692 days) over two-week intervals. Participants were asked up to three times a day to "describe your current feelings", rate their emotions, and report their alcohol behavior in the past 24 hours, including if they were drinking alone or with others. Results: Both between and within individuals, language-based subjective well-being predicted alcohol behavior more accurately than corresponding rating scales. Individuals self-reported being happier on days when drinking more, with language characteristic of these days predominantly describing socializing with friends. Between individuals (over several weeks), subjective well-being correlated much more negatively with drinking alone (r = -.29) than it did with total drinking (r = -.10). Aligned with this, people who drank more alone generally described their feelings as sad, stressed and anxious and drinking alone days related to nervous and annoyed language as well as a lower reported subjective well-being. Conclusions: Individuals' daily subjective well-being, as measured via language, in part, explained the social aspects of alcohol drinking. Further, being alone explained this relationship, such that drinking alone was associated with lower subjective well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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