Using a sample of adults (n = 110; 58.2% women), we administered surveys three times a day for 28 days to measure momentary alcohol and cannabis use, sexual activity, and substance-involved sexual activity. At the end of this momentary assessment, participants completed a retrospective survey assessing how frequently they engaged in these behaviors during the 28-day period.
We compared participants\' momentary reports-which were scaled to account for compliance rates-and retrospective surveys. While there were no significant differences in momentary and retrospective reports of alcohol or cannabis use, participants reported higher rates of sexual activity and alcohol-involved sexual activity on the retrospective surveys than the momentary reports. Effect sizes for significant differences were medium to large (Cohen\'s d: 0.26-0.67).
Alcohol- and cannabis-involved sexual activity tend to be overreported on retrospective surveys, and preliminary findings suggest that these recall biases may vary by gender. Researchers interested in the co-occurrence of substance use and sexual activity should be aware of this potential random error and consider how to reduce recall biases based on method of data collection.
使用成人样本(n=110;58.2%的女性),我们每天进行三次调查,持续28天,以测量瞬时酒精和大麻的使用,性活动,和涉及物质的性活动。在这个短暂的评估结束时,参与者完成了一项回顾性调查,评估他们在28天期间从事这些行为的频率.
我们比较了参与者的瞬时报告和回顾性调查。虽然酒精或大麻使用的瞬时和回顾性报告没有显着差异,参与者在回顾性调查中报告性活动和酒精相关性活动的发生率高于瞬时报告.显著差异的效应大小为中等到大(科恩d:0.26-0.67)。
在回顾性调查中,涉及酒精和大麻的性活动往往被过度报道,初步调查结果表明,这些回忆偏见可能因性别而异。对物质使用和性活动同时发生感兴趣的研究人员应该意识到这种潜在的随机误差,并考虑如何根据数据收集方法减少召回偏差。