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Comparative analysis examines drinking motives and outcomes in young adults, indicating changes across events.
Findings suggest event-level effects of motives on drinking outcomes depend on when motives are assessed. More associations between retrospective motives and outcomes suggest that drinking motives may change within an event and/or young adults reconstruct their drinking motives based on their experience. Findings have event-level assessment design implications and provide evidence that antecedent "high" motives present the greatest event-level risk for heavy drinking and negative outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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