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. Results indicate that people are not more likely to drink on days they experience high negative affect, but are more likely to drink and drink heavily on days high in positive affect. People self-reporting a motivational tendency to drink-to-cope and drink-to-enhance consumed more alcohol, but not on days they experienced higher negative and positive affect. Results were robust across different operationalizations of affect, study designs, study populations, and individual characteristics. These findings challenge the long-held belief that people drink more alcohol following increases in negative affect. Integrating these findings under different theoretical models and limitations of this field of research, we collectively propose an agenda for future research to explore open questions surrounding affect and alcohol use.

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情感与饮酒之间的日常关联：个体参与者数据的荟萃分析。


有影响力的心理学理论假设人们饮酒是为了应对消极和积极情绪的体验。尽管进行了二十年的日常日记和生态瞬时评估研究，但仍不清楚人们是否在日常生活中经历较高负面和正面影响的日子里摄入更多的酒精。在这项预先注册的荟萃分析中，我们综合了情感与饮酒之间日常关联的证据。我们纳入了来自 69 项研究 (N = 12,394) 的个人参与者数据，这些研究使用每日和瞬时调查来评估影响和饮用酒精饮料的数量。结果表明，人们并不是在经历高负面情绪的日子里更有可能喝酒，而是更有可能在高积极情绪的日子里喝酒并且大量饮酒。自我报告有饮酒应对和饮酒增强的动机倾向的人会消耗更多的酒精，但在他们经历更高的消极和积极影响的日子里却不会。在不同的情感操作、研究设计、研究人群和个人特征中，结果都是稳健的。这些发现挑战了人们长期以来的看法，即人们在负面情绪增加后会喝更多的酒。将这些发现整合到该研究领域的不同理论模型和局限性下，我们共同提出了未来研究的议程，以探索有关情感和酒精使用的开放性问题。