High-mind wandering correlates with high risk for problematic alcohol use in China and Germany.

"Declarations Ethical standardsThe authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. All participants gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study."

"This research was supported by internal research funds from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (S.L.); Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (2018SHZDZX05), Shanghai Clinical Research Center for Mental Health (M.Z., 19MC1911100), and Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center (M.Z., SHDC2020CR3045B)."

"Our online survey consisted of a sociodemographic assessment (i.e., sex and age), the MWQ questionnaires, and the AUDIT. The study was approved by the Ethics Committees at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (registration number: EA2/143/20), at Freie Universität Berlin (registration number: 030/2022), and at Shanghai Mental Health Center (registration number: 2021ky-15)."