STRESS, COLLEGE STUDENT DRINKING, AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS

申请者摘要：这个为期两年的项目的目标是研究生活压力和酒精使用之间的时间关系，因为它在 大学生的日常生活，以及心理社会保护的作用 而脆弱因素可能会在缓和这种关系方面发挥作用。一个数字 的研究已经证明了延长寿命之间的积极关系 大学生的压力或苦恼和饮酒增加； 然而，到目前为止，还没有研究检查每日波动与 大学生压力与饮酒的关系。中使用的方法 这项研究，每日日记报告，代表着研究的重大进展 压力和饮酒：每日报告压力和饮酒情况 多水平建模的应用减少了回忆失真，并允许 同时审查人与人之间的问题 某些人是否在高压力日比低压力日喝得更多 几天。300名大学生将完成心理社会测量 保护性因素和脆弱性因素。然后，在21天的时间里，他们将记录 他们每天的压力、应对方式和情绪，以及前一天晚上的 压力和饮酒。将使用多水平回归分析来 回答以下问题：(A)学生在 高应激期(几天、几周)与低应激期相比？；(B)是否 消极情绪状态和情绪集中应对、努力中介效应 对饮酒的压力？；和(C)大学生的酒量 心理社会资源和更大的脆弱性标记，与其他人相比， 在高压力时期(几天、几周)喝得更多，而不是在低压力时期， 男性和女性的这种联想是一样的吗？这些问题的答案 问题可能会指导旨在减少问题饮酒的干预努力 模式及其长期后果。

APPLICANT'S ABSTRACT: The goal of this two-year project is to examine the temporal relationship between life stress and alcohol use as it unfolds in the everyday lives of college students, and the role that psychosocial protective and vulnerability factors may play in moderating this relationship. A number of studies have documented positive relationships between increased life stress or distress and increased alcohol consumption in college students; however, no study to date has examined relations between daily fluctuations in stress and alcohol consumption among college student. The methodology used in this study, daily diary reports, represents a major advance in research on stress and alcohol use: Daily reporting of stress and alcohol consumption and the application of multilevel modeling reduces recall distortion and allows for the simultaneous examination of the within-by-between-person question of whether certain individuals drink more on high stress days versus low stress days. Three-hundred college students will complete measures of psychosocial protective and vulnerability factors. Then, for 21 days, they will record in structured diaries their daily stress, coping, and mood, and previous night's stress and alcohol consumption. Multilevel regression analyses will be used to address the following questions: (a) Do students drink more alcohol during high stress periods (days, weeks) compared to low stress periods?; (b) Do negative mood states and emotion-focused coping, efforts mediate the effects of stress on alcohol consumption?; and (c) do college students with fewer psychosocial resources and greater vulnerability markers, compared to others, drink more during high stress periods (days, weeks) versus low stress periods, and are these associations the same for men and women? Answers to these questions might guide intervention efforts aimed at reducing problem drinking patterns and their long term consequences.