My friends, I’m #SOTALLYTOBER: A longitudinal examination of college students’ drinking, friends’ approval of drinking, and Facebook alcohol-related posts

Literature has consistently shown a positive relationship between young adults' social media alcohol-related posts and drinking outcomes; however, the reasons for this association and the psychosocial influences behind students' posting of alcohol-related content are still unclear. Peer influences have been robustly shown to predict students' drinking such that students' perceptions of their friends' drinking is positively associated with their...