Daily stress and alcohol consumption: modeling between-person and within-person ethnic variation in coping behavior.

Objective: Using a daily diary approach, the current study evaluated the relationship between coping and alcohol consumption using a large, multiethnic sample. The primary goals of this study were to (a) identify coping strategies that are either protective or risk factors for alcohol consumption and (b) model between-ethnic and within-ethnic group variation for these relations.

Method: College students (N = 365, 69.