Sensation seeking, impulsivity, COVID-19 stress, and drinking among emerging adults
Bibliographic record
Abstract
• Impulsivity and sensation seeking linked to COVID-era alcohol use. • Distinct COVID stressors mediate risk and protective drinking pathways. • Sensation seeking tied to lower fear, higher drinking during pandemic. • Impulsive traits predict both trauma-linked and fear-reducing outcomes. • Supports personality-targeted interventions for emerging adults. This study examined relations between sensation seeking, impulsivity, COVID-related stress and alcohol consumption using a cross-sectional survey of 1318 students from five Canadian universities. Path analysis found impulsivity was positively associated with all five Covid Stress Scales (CSS-B) and was indirectly associated with more alcohol use through traumatic stress (risk pathway) and indirectly associated with less alcohol consumption through higher danger/contamination fears and economic fears (protective pathways). Sensation seeking was indirectly associated with more alcohol consumption through lower danger/contamination fears (risk pathway). There may have been a ‘healthy’ amount of COVID-related danger/contamination fear that was lacking among sensation seekers. Addressing traumatic stress, such as those inherent during the COVID-19 pandemic, may help reduce drinking among students high in impulsivity..
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".