STRESS, COLLEGE STUDENT DRINKING, AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS

申请人摘要：这个为期两年的项目的目标是检查 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， 脆弱性因素可能会缓和这种关系。一些 的研究已经证明了寿命的延长 大学生的压力或痛苦和酒精消费增加; 然而，迄今为止，还没有研究探讨每日波动之间的关系， 大学生压力和饮酒情况。所用的方法 这项研究，每日日记报告，代表了研究的一个重大进展， 压力和酒精用途：每日报告压力和酒精消耗， 多级建模的应用减少了召回失真， 同时审查人与人之间的问题 是否某些人在高压力的日子比低压力的日子喝得更多 天300名大学生将完成心理社会测量 保护和脆弱性因素。然后，在21天内，他们将记录 结构化的日记他们的日常压力，应对，和情绪，和前一天晚上的 压力和酒精消费。多水平回归分析将用于 （a）学生在上课期间是否饮酒较多 高压力时期（天，周）与低压力时期相比？(b)做 消极情绪状态和情绪集中的应对，努力中介的影响 对酒精消费的压力？（c）大学生是否有更少的 心理社会资源和更大的脆弱性标志，与其他人相比， 与低压力时期相比，在高压力时期（几天，几周）喝得更多， 这些联系对男性和女性来说是一样的吗？回答这些 问题可能会指导旨在减少问题饮酒的干预措施 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.