Daily Impact of Stressful Digital Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Alcohol Use Among Young Adults in Romantic Relationships

COVID-19 大流行期间压力数字事件对恋爱关系中的年轻人饮酒的日常影响

• 批准号: 10607800
• 负责人: Selena Quiroz
• 金额: $ 4.68万
• 依托单位: ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10607800
• 关键词: Adult; Affect; Alcohol abuse; Alcohol consumption; Anxiety; Area; Attention; COVID-19 pandemic; COVID-19 stress; Cellular Phone; Code; Couples; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Depersonalization; Development; Devices; Distress; Equipment and supply inventories; Ethics; Event; Exposure to; Fellowship; Future; Generations; Hispanic; Individual; Intervention; Knowledge; Life; Link; Measures; Mentorship; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Natural Disasters; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Persons; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders; Prevention; Probability; Randomized; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Proposals; Risk; Sampling; Severities; Social Environment; Stress; Stressful Event; Students; Symptoms; Technology; Terrorism; Text Messaging; Time; Training; Trauma; Writing; age group; alcohol use disorder; contagion; desensitization; diaries; digital; drinking; experience; handheld mobile device; improved; intervention program; news; novel; pandemic disease; reduced alcohol use; skills; social media; stressor; success; theories; young adult; young adult alcohol use

Project Summary Stress exposure is a significant predictor of young adult alcohol use, with uncontrollable stressors, such as natural disasters and mass traumas, being particularly harmful. Digital stress exposure, defined as exposure to any stressful event through the use of a smartphone including but not limited to online news articles, social media posts, and text messages, has recently received increased attention. Digital stress exposure has been linked to increased anxiety and PTSD symptoms, and some report digital stress exposure as more stressful than in- person stress exposure. However, research has yet to examine the impact of digital stress exposure on young adult AU. The year 2020 presents as a unique window to explore the impact of digital stress exposure on young adult alcohol use as a myriad of uncontrollable stressors occurred at global, national, state and interpersonal levels, including the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustices, and civil unrest. These stressors were amplified through the media, making digital stress exposure frequent and often unavoidable. Simultaneously, reports indicated significant increases in young adults' technology use and alcohol use. As young adults are at increased risk of developing alcohol use disorders, and harmful drinking during young adulthood predicts later alcohol problems, it is imperative that we investigate the effects of digital stress exposure on young adults' alcohol use. Given that stressors occurred rapidly during 2020, it is important to examine stressors at the daily level in order to capture the frequent stressors occurring. Additionally, microlevel contexts such as romantic relationships can exacerbate stress and alcohol use between partners, making this context of influence equally important to include. To fill these gaps, this research proposal utilizes a 21-day daily diary study implemented with young adult couples during the beginning of the pandemic. This study utilized a novel data collection method wherein participants uploaded screenshots from their smartphones indicating the most stressful digital event of each day. The first aim of the proposed project is to adapt an existing coding system for the daily stressful digital events and assess its validity. The second aim will examine if objective and subjective ratings of digital stressful events are associated with same- and next-day alcohol use. Examination of subjective and objective stress ratings for digital stressful events is imperative as desensitization and depersonalization during the pandemic may contaminate participant self-reports. The proposed research project supports my training objectives: 1) obtain a deeper conceptual and ethical understanding of the impact of stress on young adult alcohol use, 2) advance quantitative skills in the area of intensive longitudinal data analysis, and 3) improve my abilities in scientific writing and dissemination. Adapting an existing daily stressful event coding system for stressful digital events would afford researchers the opportunity to identify specific aspects of technology use that impacts young adult alcohol use, which may aid the development of prevention and intervention efforts by highlighting the underlying day-to- day mechanisms through which technology use relates to alcohol use among young adults.

项目概要 压力暴露是年轻人饮酒的重要预测因素，其中存在无法控制的压力源，例如 自然灾害和大规模创伤尤其有害。数字压力暴露，定义为暴露于 通过使用智能手机发生的任何压力事件，包括但不限于在线新闻文章、社交媒体 帖子和短信最近受到越来越多的关注。数字压力暴露与 焦虑和创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 症状增加，一些人报告称，接触数字压力比接触数字压力更有压力。 人的压力暴露。然而，研究尚未检验数字压力暴露对年轻人的影响 成人AU。 2020 年是探索数字压力对年轻人影响的独特窗口 成人饮酒作为无数无法控制的压力源发生在全球、国家、州和人际交往中 水平，包括 COVID-19 大流行、种族不公正和内乱。这些压力源被放大 通过媒体，数字压力暴露变得频繁且往往不可避免。同时，报道称 表明年轻人的技术使用和酒精使用显着增加。随着年轻人的增加 患酒精使用障碍的风险，成年早期有害饮酒预示着以后的饮酒 问题，我们有必要调查数字压力暴露对年轻人饮酒的影响。 鉴于 2020 年压力源发生得很快，因此每天检查压力源非常重要，以便 捕捉经常发生的压力源。此外，诸如恋爱关系等微观层面的背景也可以 加剧伴侣之间的压力和酗酒，使这种影响背景对伴侣同样重要 包括。为了填补这些空白，本研究提案利用了一项针对年轻人的 21 天每日日记研究 大流行初期的成年夫妇。本研究采用了一种新颖的数据收集方法，其中 参与者从智能手机上传了屏幕截图，显示了每天压力最大的数字事件。 拟议项目的首要目标是调整现有的编码系统以应对日常压力数字事件 并评估其有效性。第二个目标将检查数字压力事件的客观和主观评级是否 与当日和次日饮酒有关。主观和客观压力评级的检查 数字压力事件势在必行，因为大流行期间的脱敏和去个性化可能会 污染参与者的自我报告。拟议的研究项目支持我的培训目标：1）获得 对压力对年轻人饮酒影响的更深入的概念和伦理理解，2) 推进 密集纵向数据分析领域的定量技能，以及3）提高我的科学写作能力 和传播。针对压力数字事件调整现有的日常压力事件编码系统将 为研究人员提供机会来确定影响年轻人饮酒的技术使用的具体方面 使用，这可以通过强调潜在的日常情况来帮助预防和干预工作的发展 技术使用与年轻人饮酒相关的日间机制。