Study 2. The second study used the same procedure to measure alcohol consumption, but the assessment of stressful events and craving differed slightly. As before, the TLFB was used to estimate drinking on days missing alcohol consumption reports (15.5% of days). To assess stressors that occurred that day, participants completed a more extensive version of the daily stress assessment based on work from previous EMA studies (Armeli et al., 2015). Participants were asked, “Which of the following events made you feel stressed today?” to which they could check a box of twelve possible events (e.g., “Work/Education,” “Home/Family,” “Finances,” among others). Responses were dichotomized to indicate if any stressful events occurred that day (“1”) or not (“0”) in order to make the results comparable between studies. Craving was measured by asking participants about their current desire to drink (“Right now I could really use a drink”) on a Visual Analog Scale (VAS) ranging from 1 representing “Strongly disagree” up to 100, anchored at “Strongly agree.” We opted for a single question to reduce participant burden since the two items described in Study 1 were strongly correlated (r=.77).
