Excessive alcohol use has been shown to be associated with various adverse
consequences and health problems such as fatal and non-fatal injuries, blackouts, suicide …

For many people, experience with drinking alcohol begins in adolescence. Yet for some
youth, such early experimentation can spiral into problematic drinking patterns. Research …

Aims Longitudinal full cross‐lagged models are essential to test causal relationships. This
study used such a model to test the predictive value of internal (enhancement and coping) …

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 …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to test whether the link between alcohol
expectancies and alcohol use (drinking frequency, usual quantity, five-plus drinking) is …

The present study was designed to investigate motivational patterns for drinking alcohol and
their relation about alcohol consumption and problems related to alcohol consumption. Data …

Alcohol misuse presents a major risk for health and well-being throughout the life-span, but
youth have a special vulnerability. Alcohol is the most widely used drug by adolescents. For …

Aims This study examined whether parental drinking motives are associated with young
adults' drinking motives, and their association with young adults' drinking behaviors …

Drinking motives are among the most proximal factors for drinking behavior and serve as a
mechanism through which more distal factors are mediated. However, it is less clear …

Although motivations to use alcohol have been shown to predict alcohol use and alcohol-
related problems, little is known about how drinking motives develop. This study identified …