Associations of state and trait empathy with daily alcohol use.
Lakshmi KumarWhitney R RingwaldAidan G C WrightKasey G CreswellPublished in: Alcohol (Hanover, York County, Pa.) (2023)
On drinking days, when individuals reported more affective empathy than is typical for them, they were more likely to consume a greater number of alcoholic drinks, results that remained when controlling for levels of PA and NA. Daily shifts in affective empathy may be important to consider in efforts to understand alcohol use.