We further found that, consistent with expectations, drinking identity was positively associated with drinking and problems. This result is in line with previous research which evidenced that drinking identity is associated with increased drinking (e.g., Neighborset al., 2010; Reed et al., 2007) and perhaps, as a consequence,higher alcohol-related problems (e.g., Lindgren et al., 2013). Also consistent with predictions, results revealed a significant two-way interaction between drinking identity and decisional balance regarding alcohol-problems, such that drinking identity was associated with increased alcohol-related problems, particularly among those lower in decisional balance. In addition, tests of the simple slopes revealed that the positive association between drinking identity and alcohol-related problems was significantly different from zero at lower levels of decisional balance but not at higher levels of decisional balance.