Registered report protocol reports planned tests of affect-urgency interactions on alcohol and cannabis use in young adults, highlighting targets for prevention.
The hypothesis that urgency, a trait quantifying individual differences in impulsive behaviors driven by intense emotions, moderates associations between affect and alcohol use has received inconsistent support in studies that repeatedly sample individuals in their natural environment. No research to date has tested whether urgency moderates the associations between affect and cannabis use in ecological momentary assessment research. Clarifying the role that urgency potentially plays in the development of problematic substance use in everyday life is critical to the development of targeted prevention and treatment interventions. In this Registered Report, we will test an exhaustive list of affective states × trait- and state-level urgency interactions predicting alcohol and cannabis use in a large sample (n = 500) of young adults who use both substances regularly. Five-hundred young adults (stratified by age and sex) completed five short EMA surveys per day for 32 days across eight weekends (Thursday-Sunday).
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