Problematic alcohol consumption represents a critical risk to young adults’ mental and physical health (WHO, 2018). As a result, understanding negative consequences that stem from young adults’ binge drinking and inter-related factors that may mitigate increases in binge drinking has much to offer scholars and practitioners. In the current study, a two-wave random intercept cross-lagged panel design was used to examine the reciprocal inter-relations among stress, anticipated regret, and binge drinking within a lab-based study of young adults (N = 109, M_age = 19.85). Within-person findings indicated that high life stress and low anticipated regret predicted subsequent increases in binge drinking three months later, accounting for between person stability in these constructs. All told, findings point to life stress as a robust predictor of increased binge drinking, and anticipated regret as a protective factor associated with reductions in binge drinking among young adults. Given that anticipated regret signalled subsequent reductions in binge drinking and may be a flow-on effect of high stress, future research should consider ways to foreground anticipation of regret as a protective factor mitigating increases in binge drinking.

有问题的饮酒对年轻人的身心健康构成严重风险（世卫组织，2018 年）。因此，了解年轻人酗酒的负面后果以及可能减轻酗酒增加的相互关联的因素，对学者和从业者有很大帮助。在当前的研究中，使用双波随机截距交叉滞后面板设计来检查基于实验室的年轻人研究中压力、预期后悔和酗酒之间的相互关系（N = 109，M_年龄= 19.85）。个人内部调查结果表明，高生活压力和低预期后悔预示着三个月后暴饮暴食的后续增加，解释了这些结构中人与人之间的稳定性。总而言之，研究结果表明，生活压力是酗酒增加的有力预测因素，而预期的后悔是与年轻人酗酒减少相关的保护因素。鉴于预期的后悔预示着随后酗酒的减少，并且可能是高压力的后续影响，未来的研究应该考虑如何将后悔的预期作为减轻酗酒增加的保护因素。