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authors: Skrzynski, Carillon J.; Creswell, Kasey G.
title: A systematic review and meta‐analysis on the association between solitary drinking and alcohol problems in adults
date: 2020-11-27
journal: Addiction
DOI: 10.1111/add.15355
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doc_id: 834898
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Solitary drinking in adolescents and young adults is associated with greater risk for alcohol problems, but it is unclear whether this association exists in older demographics. The current paper is the first meta‐analysis and systematic review to determine whether adult solitary drinking is associated with greater risk for alcohol problems. METHODS: PsychINFO, PubMed, and Google Scholar were searched following a pre‐registered PROSPERO protocol (CRD42019147075) and PRISMA methodology. Following the methodology used in our recent systematic review and meta‐analysis on adolescent/young adult solitary drinking, we systematically reviewed solitary drinking measures/definitions, prevalence rates, and associated demographic variables in adults. We then meta‐analyzed (using random effects models) associations between adult solitary drinking and alcohol use/problems, negative affect, and negative/positive reinforcement‐related variables (e.g., drinking to cope or for enhancement). RESULTS: Solitary drinking was defined as drinking while physically alone in nearly all studies, but measures varied. Prevalence rates were generally in the 30‐40% range with some exceptions. In general, males were more likely than females to report drinking alone, and married individuals were less likely than unmarried individuals to report drinking alone; racial/ethnic differences were mixed. Meta‐analytic results showed significant effects for the associations between solitary drinking and the following factors: alcohol consumption, r=0.25, 95%CI [0.18, 0.33], k=15, I (2)=97.41; drinking problems, r=0.15, 95%CI [0.10, 0.21], k=14, I (2)=92.70; and negative reinforcement, r=0.24, 95%CI [0.14, 0.32], k=11, I (2)=91.54; but not positive reinforcement, r=0.02, 95%CI [‐0.06, 0.09], k=8, I (2)=76.18; or negative affect, r=0.03, 95%CI [‐0.02, 0.08], k=8, I (2)=52.06. Study quality moderated the association between solitary drinking and negative affect (β=‐0.07, p<0.01) such that lower quality studies were significantly associated with larger effect sizes. Study quality was generally low; the majority of studies were cross‐sectional. CONCLUSIONS: Solitary drinking appears to have a small positive association with alcohol problems.

[19], emotional [21] , and social domains (e.g., [22] ). We recently conducted a meta-analysis on solitary drinking in adolescents (ages 12-18) and young adults (mean age between 18-30 or majority of sample <30 years old) and found small to medium effects for the associations between solitary drinking and alcohol consumption, drinking problems, negative affect, and social discomfort (the latter of which included variables such as social anxiety, loneliness, and dissatisfaction with social networks) [16] . Two additional factors, labeled negative and positive reinforcement, were also investigated to illuminate the potential mechanisms that might drive solitary drinking in order to inform prevention/intervention efforts. Included in these factors were motives, expectancies, and situations related to drinking to alleviate negative affect or to enhance positive affect, respectively. While associations between solitary drinking and both of these factors were significant, the effect size for the negative reinforcement factor was 3x greater than the positive reinforcement factor [16] . Together, these results suggest that solitary drinking is a risky drinking pattern among adolescents and young adults and may be primarily motivated by the desire to alleviate negative affect.

It is unclear whether solitary drinking serves as a reliable indicator of alcohol problems among adults [13] . Prevalence rates of solitary dinking in adults are often much higher than rates in adolescents and young adults (e.g., [23, 24] ), in some cases reaching 2.5 times the rates of younger samples [25] , suggesting that drinking alone may become a more normative and potentially less problematic drinking style as individuals age. Indeed, results from an adult sample (mean age 40 years) showed that solitary drinking was only problematic when individuals were drinking heavily while alone [23, 26] . Findings are mixed, however.

While adult solitary drinking is often associated with greater alcohol consumption (e.g., [27, 28] ), results regarding alcohol problems are inconsistent (e.g., [28] [29] [30] cf. [31] [32] [33] ).

Synthesizing results across studies will illuminate whether solitary drinking is reliably associated with greater alcohol use/problems in adults, as it is in younger demographics.

If solitary drinking is associated with at-risk alcohol consumption among adults, it is important to understand why these individuals drink alone to develop targeted intervention/prevention programs. Solitary drinking may be imbued with a different meaning in older versus younger individuals. While adolescent and young adult solitary drinking is associated with negative reinforcement factors (e.g., drinking to cope; [15, 16] ), adult solitary drinking may be linked to positive reinforcement factors (e.g., drinking to enhance positive affect), given that adults report drinking alone during situations often linked to positive affect (e.g., while enjoying a meal, during leisure time) [26, 34, 35] . But findings are also mixed for associations between adult solitary drinking and negative affect (e.g., [25, 36] cf. [37] ), negative reinforcement factors (e.g., [38, 39] cf. [27, 40] ), and positive reinforcement factors (e.g., [27, 41] cf. [38, 42] ). Thus, it remains unclear whether negative or positive reinforcement is more important in motivating adult solitary drinking.

The current study is the first to provide a systematic review and quantitative analysis on solitary drinking among adults. The aims and methodology mirror our prior systematic review and meta-analysis on adolescents and young adults [16] . Specifically, we first provide a context for understanding adult solitary drinking by systematically reviewing how it has been defined/measured, prevalence rates, and associated demographic factors. We then provide a systematic review and meta-analysis on associations between adult solitary drinking and five superordinate factors from our prior review on adolescents and young adults: alcohol consumption (i.e., quantity/frequency), drinking problems (e.g., AUD symptoms), negative affect (e.g., depression), negative reinforcement, and positive reinforcement (i.e., drinking motives/expectancies/situations related to ameliorating negative affect or enhancing positive affect, respectively 1 ). We hypothesized that solitary drinking among adults, as with younger samples, would be positively associated with alcohol consumption and problems. Given conflicting evidence, we tested the associations between solitary drinking, negative affect, and negative versus positive reinforcement factors without proposing specific hypotheses.

We report methodology in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines [44] Supplementary Figures 1-3) . The reference lists of identified studies were also scanned, and reverse searches were generated and scanned for appropriate studies (see Figure 1 ). Articles were included in both the systematic review and meta-analysis if solitary drinking was assessed in adults (i.e., samples in which the mean age/majority of participants was >30 years). To be included in the systematic review, studies had to report on at least one of the following data points in regards to solitary drinking: definition/measures, prevalence rates, associated demographic factors, or associations with at least one variable included in one of the five superordinate factors (see Supplementary Table 2 for a detailed list of variables included in each factor). To be included in the meta-analysis, studies had to provide data on the associations between solitary drinking and at least one variable included in one of the five superordinate factors. Exclusionary criteria for both reviews included nonhuman animal, non-English language, and non-peer reviewed/unpublished studies.

Following the same format as our prior meta-analysis [16], we extracted statistics (i.e., correlations, means, odds ratios) on the associations between solitary drinking and the five superordinate factors [16] . When these statistics were not available, we requested them from authors 2 . A second member of the study team independently extracted these variables to create the superordinate factors, which resulted in excellent inter-rater reliability (ĸ=0.96).

The few discrepancies that existed were reconciled by team discussion. Analyses were run using Comprehensive Meta Analysis (CMA 2.0) software [45] , and Pearson's r values are reported as final effect sizes 3 . The threshold for significance for all analyses was set at p<.05.

Each value contributing to an aggregate effect size was independent of all other values. When studies included multiple solitary drinking measures (e.g., ever/never versus 5+ drinks alone; [23]), to be conservative, we included the solitary drinking variable demonstrating the weakest association with the variable of interest. When studies reported associations between solitary drinking and multiple variables categorized within the same superordinate factor (e.g., daily stress and depressive symptoms), which were both included in the negative affect superordinate factor, an average effect size was computed across the variables [45, 46] . Similarly, when different papers using the same sample of participants contributed multiple variables to a single factor, an average effect size was computed across the variables. This ensured that papers with shared samples contributed only one weighted effect size per superordinate factor.

Random effects models were used for all analyses [47] . The heterogeneity of effect sizes across studies for each superordinate factor was tested with the I 2 and Q statistics [45] .

When the heterogeneity test was significant, we tested for potential moderation by study quality, assessed using a system similar to Mason [15] 4 . Studies were coded on representative sampling, standardized measurement, prospective longitudinal analysis, and whether alcohol consumption was controlled for in associations between solitary drinking and variables included in the superordinate factors. Each study received a score of 0-4, depending on the absence/presence (0/1) of each feature. Publication bias was evaluated with methods commonly used in the literature (i.e., Begg's rank correlation test [48] , funnel plots, and trimand-fill methods [49] ). Importantly, though, these methods do not always indicate publication bias (e.g., asymmetry of funnel plots may reflect reporting bias, instances of chance, and/or be a result of significant heterogeneity) [50] .

A total of 547 studies were identified in the search. Fifty-one articles were included in the systematic review; 26 articles, including 18 unique samples and 51,600 individuals, were included in the meta-analysis (see Figure 1 ). The average study quality rating across studies was generally low at 1.20 (SD=0.83); the majority received a score of 1 (47%) or 2 (27%) (see Table 1 ). Below, we first present the results of the systematic review on solitary drinking definitions and measures, prevalence rates, and associated demographic factors.

Following this, we provide the results for the five superordinate factors, presenting the systematic review findings first and then the meta-analytic results.

The definitions and measures of solitary drinking, including the timeframes assessed, for each study are shown in Table 1 . Adult solitary drinking has almost exclusively been defined as drinking without others present, either through explicit wording (e.g., "…has it happened that you drank without being in the company of other people"; [23]) or allowing participants to indicate the presence/absence of drinking companions (e.g., drinking with spouse versus drinking alone; [51] ) 5 (see Table 1 ). In three papers using two samples, drinking alone included drinking in the presence of non-interacting others [29, 52, 53] [58, 74] and those with alcohol dependence [63] . However, some studies reported lower rates of around 15-20% for both solitary drinkers [70, 77, 78] and the percent of drinking occasions that were in a solitary context [78] . One study on adult drinkers with a lifetime diagnosis of alcohol dependence reported a higher rate of 48% [67] , as did another study on moderate-to-heavy drinking adults who reported the context of their alcohol use daily over 30 days (68%; [25]). Rates of solitary drinking were much lower when the definition of solitary drinking was restricted to drinking alone in bars (rather than, for example, drinking at home alone; (7.6%; [29] ), and when participants were classified into a 5 In several cases, the definitions for drinking alone were not explicitly stated (e.g., Stickley et al.

[24] asked participants "How often do you drink alone?" without clarifying what "alone" meant), but we assume that participants interpreted "drinking alone" to be drinking without others physically present. 6 Excluding these studies from the meta-analytic findings presented below did not change the results. solitary drinking cluster based on their common drinking contexts (2%; [34, 35] ). Prevalence rates were unsurprisingly low when nondrinkers were included in the calculation (4-5%; [55, 66] ).

Solitary drinking was generally more common in older relative to younger adults [23, 24, 54, 55, 64] . For instance, according to a study surveying adult males in nine countries of the former Soviet Union, rates of drinking alone steadily rose among increasing age brackets, with about 27% of males aged 30-39 reporting occasional or frequent solitary drinking compared to about 35% of males aged 40-49, and about 46% of males 60 years and older [24] . Drinking alone was also positively associated with being single, separated, divorced, or widowed and negatively associated with being married [26, 34, 35, 37, 40, 59] . In general, males were more likely to report drinking alone than females [23, 33, 51, 54, 55, 57, 59, 64, 70, 77] . However, one study reported no sex differences [34,35] 7 and two found that females were more likely to report drinking alone than males [76, 79] .

Finally, only two studies reported on race, and these generated conflicting findings. In a sample of 20-50 year old male participants, African Americans were more likely to report frequent drinking while alone compared to Anglo or Hispanic individuals [78] . Among nontraditional college students (Mage=33.2), drinking alone was more strongly endorsed by Caucasians, followed by African Americans, and then Hispanics [51] .

Several studies found that adult solitary drinking was associated with greater quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption [27,28,31,60] as well as heavy and/or hazardous drinking [24, 28, 74, 78, 80] , alcohol dependence [63, 68, 69, 73] , alcohol-related problems such 7 Two papers were published from the same sample. as injuring oneself while drinking [28, 29] , and increased likelihood of quitting or being expelled from alcohol treatment [58] . Several other studies presented conflicting results across different measures of alcohol use and problems [23, 24, 26, 31, 33, 37] . For example, one study found that frequency but not quantity of alcohol use was related to the percent of time spent drinking alone [37] , while another found that drinking alone was not associated with having alcohol-related arguments but was marginally associated with having been asked to cut down on drinking by a spouse/family member [33] . Finally, solitary drinking was not significantly associated with drinking problems or hazardous use in some studies [31, 37, 40] .

Of note, meta-analytic results revealed significant small effect sizes for the associations between solitary drinking and both greater alcohol consumption and drinking problems (see Table 2 and Supplementary Figure 4 ). There was significant heterogeneity across studies for both factors, but this heterogeneity was not explained by study quality for either factor (see Tables 2 and 3) .

Negative affect variables were associated with adult solitary drinking in many studies.

Solitary drinking was associated with depression [37] , and the quantity of alcohol consumed while alone was associated with affect variability [62] , which is thought to indicate emotional dysregulation and may itself be a source of distress [62, 81] . Additionally, individuals with concurrent alcohol dependence and major depression reported significantly more solitary drinking days than those who only experienced alcohol dependence [65] , and individuals in a low substance severity class (characterized by a lower number of substance abuse problems), who also showed the highest rates of depression, were the most likely to drink alone [36] .

Solitary drinking was not significantly associated with negative affect in the metaanalysis, however (see Table 2 and Supplementary Figure 4) . There was significant heterogeneity across studies, and a portion of this variability was explained by study quality, such that lower quality studies were associated with larger effect sizes (see Tables 2 and 3) .

Negative reinforcement variables were associated with adult solitary drinking in many studies. For instance, solitary drinking was linked to drinking to cope motives [30, 38, 39, 41] (though see [27, 37, 40, 78] for null findings 7 ) and, in the one study that tested for it, the association between solitary drinking frequency and coping motives held even after controlling for all other drinking motives (i.e., social, enhancement, and conformity motives) [38] . There is also research showing associations between solitary drinking and expectancies/beliefs of tension reduction from alcohol use [26, 42] . Notably, results from our meta-analysis revealed a significant small effect size for the association between solitary drinking and negative reinforcement (see Table 2 and Supplementary Figure 4) . There was significant heterogeneity across studies, but this was not explained by study quality (see Tables 2 and 3) .

Three studies found an association between adult solitary drinking and positive reinforcement variables [27, 37, 41] . In one study, adult solitary drinkers reported higher positive reinforcement scores (e.g., endorsement of drinking to feel happy) and negative reinforcement scores (e.g., endorsement of drinking to relax) than social-only drinkers [41] .

Another study found that the amount of alcohol consumed while drinking alone was positively associated with social-enhancement motives but not coping-conformity motives

[27] 8 , and a final study showed that percent of time drinking alone was significantly positively associated with drinking to socialize [37] .

However, these findings were in contradiction to the majority of findings regarding the association between positive reinforcement and solitary drinking in adults. For instance, neither social nor enhancement motives were related to frequency of drinking alone in one study [38] , and another study found that social/enhancement motives decreased the odds of reporting solitary drinking [40] . Further, adult solitary drinking was not related to positive affect or drinking during positive affective states [25, 82] , and it was either not associated or negatively associated with drinking during pleasant times with others and positive interpersonal exchanges [28, 53, 72] . Finally, adults grouped into a social festive profile of drinkers (categorized by strong motivations to socialize and celebrate) reported never drinking alone [54] . Supporting this, there was no association between solitary drinking and positive reinforcement in our meta-analysis (see Table 2 and Supplementary Figure 4) . There was significant heterogeneity across studies, but this was not explained by study quality (see Tables 2 and 3) .

Begg's rank correlation test resulted in null findings for all factors, and both visual inspection of funnel plots and trim-and-fill analyses suggested there was little evidence of publication bias for all factors given that imputation of missing studies did not alter effect sizes appreciably (see Supplementary Figure 5 and Supplementary Tables 3 and 4 ).

Most research investigating problem drinking is conducted on adolescents and young adults, yet there is evidence of alcohol misuse across the lifespan [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] , and the health consequences of excessive drinking among mid-life and older adults are often more serious than in younger individuals [7] [8] [9] [10] . Thus, understanding the correlates and mechanisms of adult problematic drinking are research priorities. The current systematic review and metaanalysis focused on adult solitary drinking, as our prior meta-analysis revealed that it is a reliable marker of greater risk for AUD in younger demographics [16] (see also [13, 15, 17, 18] ).

Solitary drinking has been defined fairly consistently across studies on adults as drinking without others present, however three papers (using two unique samples) included Findings for other demographic factors were mixed but, in general, males were more likely to report solitary drinking than females, and married individuals were less likely to drink alone compared to unmarried individuals. Only two studies examined potential racial/ethnic differences, and results were mixed. Future studies are indicated to identify individual difference variables associated with adult solitary drinking.

Despite higher prevalence rates of solitary drinking in adults, links between adult solitary drinking and greater alcohol use and problems were generally consistent with findings in adolescents and young adults. Meta-analytic results showed small but significant effects sizes between adult solitary drinking and greater alcohol consumption and problems.

The effect size for greater alcohol consumption in solitary drinking adults (r=0.25) was similar to the effect size found in adolescents and young adults (r=0.23), but the effect size for alcohol problems in solitary drinking adults was somewhat smaller than in adolescents and young adults (r=0.15 versus r=0.23) [16] . Taken together, our findings suggest that adult solitary drinking may also be a risky drinking behavior with links to greater alcohol use and problems.

Potential reasons for adult solitary drinking also paralleled research among younger individuals. Meta-analytic results revealed a small but significant effect size for the association between solitary drinking and the negative reinforcement factor (r=0.24), which was again comparable to that found among adolescents and young adults (r=0.28) [16] . Also similar to adolescents and young adults, the positive reinforcement factor was not associated with adult solitary drinking. Thus, across ages, individuals who report drinking alone also endorse expectancies and motives related to drinking to ameliorate negative affect, as well drinking in the context of negative affect [16] .These self-medication patterns of alcohol use are prospectively predictive of the development and persistence of AUD symptoms [84] , and may explain the link between solitary drinking and greater alcohol use and problems [13, 15, 16] . It is important to note, however, that all prior studies examining these associations have been cross-sectional.

Despite the negative reinforcement factor being linked to adult solitary drinking, the negative affect factor was not associated with adult solitary drinking (r=0.03), but it was for adolescents and young adults with a small but significant effect size (r=0.21) [16] . The null finding in adults may be due to age-related decreases in the experience of negative affect (e.g., [85] ), or differences in the way negative affect variables were assessed across adolescents/young adults and adults (e.g., primarily measures of depression/anxiety symptoms in adolescents/young adults, and primarily measures of trait/state negative affect in adults). Alternatively, after the young adulthood period, it may be that only drinking heavily while alone is associated with negative affect. Future studies are indicated to explore this discrepancy. 29, 32, 57, 71] . It is noteworthy, however, that results from these high quality studies generally supported the meta-analytic findings. Solitary drinking prospectively predicted alcohol consumption/problems [57] and drinking to cope motives [25] , and associations between solitary drinking and drinking problems and negative reinforcement variables held after controlling for alcohol consumption [23, 29, 57, 71] . Nonetheless, there is a clear need for additional longitudinal studies and ones that control for alcohol consumption when examining associations between solitary drinking and other variables of interest. Finally, experimental research that manipulates potentially important variables (e.g., drinking to cope) would be useful to discover the causal sources behind drinking alone among adults.

There was significant heterogeneity across studies within each factor, and this heterogeneity was not explained by study quality in all but the negative affect factor. Another important limitation is that we were unable to examine other potential sources of heterogeneity (e.g., age, measures of solitary drinking) due to either a lack of variability or insufficient numbers of studies within subgroups. Interestingly, though, the one prior study that tested whether age moderated the association between motives/expectancies and solitary drinking did not find evidence of an interaction [27] . As more solitary drinking studies are published, future research is indicated to investigate potential sources of heterogeneity.

There was also a paucity of studies that compared differing quantities of alcohol However, it is noteworthy that drinking to cope motives continued to be associated with solitary drinking after controlling for all other drinking motives in the one study that tested this [38] . This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

In addition, there is a need for research that includes more representative samples (e.g., nationwide surveys) and clinical populations who may be more vulnerable to solitary drinking and risky substance use more generally (e.g., [14, 86] ). Since solitary use of other substances (e.g., marijuana) has been linked to negative outcomes in adolescents and young adults [15, 87] , future studies are indicated to determine whether this is also the case for adults. Finally, it is important to note that we excluded unpublished studies, which may have inflated the meta-analytic results given that unpublished studies typically have null findings (though analyses commonly used to assess publication bias did not indicate this).

In summary, findings suggest that for adults, as with adolescents and young adults, drinking alone is a risky drinking behavior associated with the desire to alleviate negative affect. More specifically, adult solitary drinking was associated with greater alcohol consumption, more alcohol-related problems, and negative reinforcement processes. In contrast, adult solitary drinking was not significantly associated with negative affect, as it was for adolescents and young adults. Given the apparent risky nature of this drinking pattern across all ages, more research is needed to understand the mechanisms underlying solitary drinking and the pathways by which drinking alone leads to adverse outcomes. [16] Skrzynski CJ, and Creswell KG, Associations between solitary drinking and increased alcohol consumption, alcohol problems, and drinking to cope motives in adolescents and young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Addiction. 2020.

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