"Long-term changes in the effect of episode-specific drinking to cope motivation on daily well-being": Correction to Armeli, Covault, and Tennen (2018).

Abstract

Reports an error in "Long-term changes in the effects of episode-specific drinking to cope motivation on daily well-being" by Stephen Armeli, Jonathan Covault and Howard Tennen (Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2018[Nov], Vol 32[7], 715-726). In the article, the description of the prospective sample in the Participants section, third and fourth sentences, is incorrect. The correct description should appear instead as follows: Prospective participants (N=1141) were contacted if they reported at least one heavy drinking day (≥ 4 drinks for women and ≥5 drinks for men) in both a 30-day retrospective assessment and a 30-day daily diary reporting phase at wave 1. Due to a coding error, 23 of these individuals did not meet these criteria but were contacted for wave 2. However, all of these individuals reported drinking levels at wave 1 (using a drinking composite comprised of standardized retrospective and daily diary drinking variables) within the range of values for the individuals who met the correct criteria and were retained for analysis. The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2018-51049-001.) To further understand the role of drinking to cope (DTC) motivation in the development of drinking-related problems during young adulthood, we tested whether the association between episode-specific levels of nighttime DTC motivation and next-day negative affect and self-control depletion symptoms (SCDS) changed from college years to postcollege years (5 years later). We also examined whether these changes were moderated by recent life stress, adult social role attainment and gender, and whether mean levels of these variables were associated with changes in drinking-related problems from college to postcollege years. Participants (N = 927; 54% women) completed a 30-day daily diary during college and again 5 years later in which they reported their previous night's drinking level and motivation and their current negative affect and SCDS. We assessed drinking-related problems at both waves and recent life stress and adult social roles at Wave 2. DTC motivation was positively associated with next-day levels of negative affect and SCDS. The effect of DTC motivation on anxiety and SCDS became stronger over time. The effect of DTC motivation on depressive affect and anger (a) decreased across time among individuals who attained more adult roles and (b) was weaker among individuals who reported lower levels of postcollege life stress. Mean levels of postcollege DTC motivation was indirectly related to changes in drinking-related problems from college to postcollege through mean levels of negative affect and SCDS. Our findings indicate that DTC might exert its unique long-term effects on alcohol use disorders through disruption of daily emotion-regulation processes.≥ (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).