Validation and Transference of Drinking Motives : Based on the Motivational Model of Alcohol Use (Volume 31)

Emmanuel Kuntsche

• Publisher: Bamberg University Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9783863096670
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychopathology
• Index: Psychology

This work deals with three basic assumptions in contemporary drinking motive research. The first is that the four-dimensional model of drinking motives and links between the motive dimensions and alcohol use hold true among adolescents from different countries. The results of three empirical studies revealed striking cross-countries consistencies. This concerned not only the confirmation of the four-dimensional factor structure in the countries separately, but also its equivalence across countries in terms of item loadings on the four factors and factor variances and inter-correlations. The rank order in the mean scores of the four motives was also invariant across countries: Adolescents scored highest on social motives followed by enhancement, coping, and conformity motives, in said order. Moreover, evidence reveals that adolescents from countries in northern Europe differ in their drinking motivations from their counterparts in southern/central European countries and that the link between drinking culture (northern vs. southern/central Europe) and alcohol use was mediated by drinking motives.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Summary
• Introduction
• Drinking Motives in Historical Perspective
• What the present work offers
• Theoretical underpinnings of drinking motives: Motivation, goal pursuit, and affective change
• Theoretical underpinnings continued: The description of the Motivational Model of Alcohol Use
• Figure 1: Graphical representation of assumptions of the Motivational Model (adapted from Kuntsche, Knibbe, Engels & Gmel, 2005)
• Assumption 1
• The four-dimensional model and links to alcohol use hold true among adolescents from different countries 0F
• Drinking Motives in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• Testing Cross-Cultural Similarities of Drinking Motives across 13 Countries
• Drinking Motives even Mediate Cultural Aspects
• Assumption 2
• Drinking Motives as Mediators
• Importance of Drinking Motives in Intervention
• Assumption 3
• Universality of the Motivational Model
• Motives for Internet Use
• Motives for Listening to Music
• Motives for Amphetamine-type stimulants
• Discussion
• General Conclusion and Issues Still to be Solved
• Recommendation for Future Drinking Motive Research in Early Adolescence
• Recommendation for Future Drinking Motive Research in Adult Populations
• References
• Curriculum Vitae
• Acknowledgements