Moreover, the interaction coefficients for living arrangement and time remained intact after adding the interaction with social isolation, showing that their moderation effects follow independent patterns. Taken together, results show that the living arrangement, in which individuals lived during the lockdown, played a somewhat bigger role overall, particularly in the autumn - winter period. In turn, social isolation played a somewhat bigger role in summer, probably because the ones who felt most isolated did not participate so much in the summer celebrations, suggesting that fluctuations in alcohol consumption during the summer months seem more related with social drinking than with alcohol being a “coping mechanism”.
