Abstract
Dating relationships during young adulthood provide an important interpersonal context for individuals’ health behaviors, including alcohol use. To better understand dating partners’ alcohol-use associations and implications, this study examined within-couple daily linkages between daily alcoholic drinks reported by males and females and further investigated the potential role of hazardous drinking as a moderator of the daily links. Dyadic data from 57 young adult, heterosexual couples were obtained across global self-report questionnaires and daily-diary methods. Multilevel modeling results indicated positive within-couple associations between dating partners’ reports of daily drinks, such that on days when males and females reported drinking more than their average number of daily drinks, their partner also drank more. In addition, both males’ and females’ elevated risks for hazardous drinking moderated these associations by weakening the positive within-couple links between partners’ daily drinks. The study extends our understanding of young adults’ alcohol use in the context of intimate relationships, shedding particular light on the implications of within-couple daily fluctuations in number of drinks and partners’ risks for hazardous drinking.
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