Drinking Together and Drinking Alone: A Social-Contextual Framework for Examining Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder

The context in which drinking occurs is a critical but relatively understudied factor in alcohol use disorder (AUD) etiology. In this article, I offer a social-contextual framework for examining AUD risk by reviewing studies on the unique antecedents and deleterious consequences of social compared w...

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Published in:Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 19 - 25
Main Author: Creswell, Kasey G.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2021
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:
Alcohol abuse
Alcohol use
alcohol problems
adolescents
young adults
alcohol use context
solitary drinking
alcohol use disorder
drinking alone
social context
ISSN:0963-7214, 1467-8721
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Summary:The context in which drinking occurs is a critical but relatively understudied factor in alcohol use disorder (AUD) etiology. In this article, I offer a social-contextual framework for examining AUD risk by reviewing studies on the unique antecedents and deleterious consequences of social compared with solitary alcohol use in adolescents and young adults. Specifically, I provide evidence of distinct emotion regulatory functions across settings, in which social drinking is linked to enhancing positive emotions and social experiences, and solitary drinking is linked to coping with negative emotions. I end by considering the conceptual, methodological, and clinical implications of this social-contextual account of AUD risk.
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ISSN:0963-7214
1467-8721
DOI:10.1177/0963721420969406