Study 1. Participants completed a daily survey that assessed if a stress event occurred that day, their current alcohol craving, and the amount of alcohol consumed that day. In this way, data on stressors experienced and alcohol craving on each day as well as alcohol intake per day was assessed, providing day-by-day data on predictor variables and drinking outcome. Participants were asked to respond yes or no to three questions designed to measure stressful events that day (“Did you have or nearly have an argument or disagreement with anyone?”, “Did anything else happen at home, work, or school that you felt was stressful?”, “Did anything else happen to you that most people would consider stressful?”) derived from the Daily Inventory of Stress Events (Almeida et al., 2002). Recent work has demonstrated that asking participants to recall stressful events at the day level yields similar results as asking participants to report stressful events as they occur (Preston et al., 2018b). The three items were combined into a single index that indicated if a stressful event occurred that day (“1”) or not
