Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to
the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary …

Over the past 20 years, ecological momentary assessment (EMA) has become a vital part of
the methods repertoire used to study personality pathology. This is because EMA facilitates …

Academic Abstract This paper aims to motivate research on emotion regulation success in
naturalistic settings. We define emotion regulation success as achieving one's emotion …

The experience-sampling method (ESM) captures psychological experiences over time and
in everyday contexts, thereby offering exciting potential for collecting more temporally fine …

Background and aims Alcohol use disorder is comorbid with numerous other forms of
psychopathology, including externalizing disorders (eg conduct disorder) and, to a lesser …

Affective functioning is central to most contemporary models of alcohol use. However, the
affective structure at the within-and between-person levels is rarely investigated nor is the …

Objective: Negative affect and affect variability figure prominently in models of addictive
behaviors but are not without controversy. Negative affect variability may better capture a …

Background: Recent meta-analytical findings indicate that affect regulation plays an
important role in alcohol craving, consumption volume, and substance use. However, in …

Alcohol use has been shown to increase stress, and there is some evidence that stress
predicts subsequent alcohol use during treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) …

Stress is considered a transdiagnostic mechanism underlying psychopathology. Research
has suggested that when people experience more stress, they also act more impulsively …