Why do young people drink? A review of drinking motives

Kuntsche, Emmanuel; Knibbe, Ronald; Gmel, Gerhard; Engels, Rutger

doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2005.06.002

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Why do young people drink? A review of drinking motives

Kuntsche, Emmanuel, Knibbe, Ronald, Gmel, Gerhard, Engels, Rutger·2005·Clinical Psychology Review

DOI 10.1016/j.cpr.2005.06.002

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This article reviews evidence of adolescent and young adult drinking motives and their relation to possible consequences over the last 15 years. To this end, a computer-assisted search of relevant articles was conducted. Results revealed that most young people reported drinking for social motives, some indicated enhancement motives, and only a few reported coping motives. Social motives appear to be associated with moderate alcohol use, enhancement with heavy drinking, and coping motives with alcohol-related problems. However, an enormous heterogeneity was found in terms of how motives were measured: 10 to 40 items were grouped into between 2 and 10 dimensions and sometimes the same items occurred under different dimensions. Future studies should therefore use well-defined, theoretically based, homogenous instruments to disentangle cultural from measurement differences across surveys.

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Authors: Kuntsche, E., Knibbe, R., Gmel, G., & Engels, R.
Affiliations: Addiction Switzerland (CH)
Maastricht University (NL)
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
Corresponding author: Kuntsche, Emmanuel
ORCID: Kuntsche, Emmanuel
Knibbe, Ronald
Gmel, Gerhard
Engels, Rutger
Venue: Clinical Psychology Review
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2005-11
Volume: 25
Issue: 7
Pages: 841-861
ISSN: 0272-7358 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2005.06.002
OpenAlex: W2037954991
Cited by: 1,472
References: 109
Citations by year: 2026: 45 · 2025: 75 · 2024: 64 · 2023: 76 · 2022: 92 · 2021: 100 · 2020: 102 · 2019: 100 · 2018: 96 · 2017: 97 · 2016: 115 · 2015: 97 · 2014: 84 · 2013: 87 · 2012: 63
FWCI: 10.93
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
Locations: Clinical Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
IRIS (submittedVersion)
Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Media Influence and Health
Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
Keywords: drinking motives, adolescent alcohol use, young adult drinking, social motives, enhancement motives, coping motives, heavy drinking, alcohol-related problems, measurement heterogeneity
MeSH terms: Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Adult, Age Factors, Alcohol Drinking, Female, Humans, Male, Motivation, Personality, Personality Assessment, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Research Design, Social Adjustment, Alcohol-Related Disorders, Empirical Research

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