title: Drinking to cope: a comparison of questionnaire and electronic diary reports.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to assess the correspondence between questionnaire reports of dispositional drinking to cope (DTC) and different indices of daily DTC in a sample of nondependent heavy drinkers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from electronic diary (ED) records of interpersonal problems, negative affect, coping and drinking were used to examine how questionnaire reports of dispositional DTC corresponded to ED reports of daily DTC and to within-person associations among ED reports of negative affect, interpersonal problems and drinking. In the current study, 98 community-residing heavy drinkers using EDs recorded moods, interpersonal problems, coping attempts, desire to drink and drinking for 21 consecutive days.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The findings demonstrate correspondence between questionnaire reports of dispositional DTC and (1) ED reports of daily DTC, (2) intensity of negative mood associated with daily drinking initiation and (3) some between-person differences in within-day prediction of drinking and desire to drink from mood and interpersonal problem ratings. Those reporting higher dispositional DTC were somewhat more likely to drink in response to some negative moods and less likely to drink in response to some positive moods than those reporting relatively lower dispositional DTC, but these findings were mixed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Questionnaire reports of dispositional DTC are at best inconsistently linked to observed within-person associations among daily moods, interpersonal problems and drinking even among heavy drinkers.
authors.affiliation: Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Berkeley, California, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Todd
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Armeli
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tennen
authors.forename: Margaret Anne
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Carney
authors.forename: Samuel A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ball
authors.forename: Henry R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Kranzler
authors.forename: Glenn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Affleck
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D004581:Electronics / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires