Why do young people drink? A review of drinking motives

E Kuntsche, R Knibbe, G Gmel, R Engels - Clinical psychology review, 2005 - Elsevier
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 …

College students and problematic drinking: A review of the literature

LS Ham, DA Hope - Clinical psychology review, 2003 - Elsevier
Problem drinking during the college years is a significant public health concern. The goal of
the current review was to examine the primary psychosocial factors that predict problem …

The Distress Tolerance Scale: Development and validation of a self-report measure

JS Simons, RM Gaher - Motivation and emotion, 2005 - Springer
This paper presents the development and validation of a self-report measure of emotional
distress tolerance. The initial scale was developed in Study 1 (N= 642). The scale evinced …

Validating a five-factor marijuana motives measure: Relations with use, problems, and alcohol motives.

J Simons, CJ Correia, KB Carey… - Journal of Counseling …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
This study adapted and extended ML Cooper's (1994) Drinking Motives Measure to examine
marijuana motives among 299 college students. An exploratory factor analysis supported …

Drinking motives in the prospective prediction of unique alcohol-related consequences in college students

JE Merrill, JD Wardell, JP Read - Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2014 - jsad.com
Objective: Although college students experience a diverse range of alcohol consequences,
most studies focus on global, rather than distinct, consequence types. One predictor of …

Who drinks and why? A review of socio-demographic, personality, and contextual issues behind the drinking motives in young people

E Kuntsche, R Knibbe, G Gmel, R Engels - Addictive behaviors, 2006 - Elsevier
The aim was to review the empirical research carried out over the last 15 years on the
characteristics of young people (10-to 25-year olds) who have specific motives for drinking …

The relations of trait anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, and sensation seeking to adolescents' motivations for alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use

N Comeau, SH Stewart, P Loba - Addictive behaviors, 2001 - Elsevier
The present study investigated relations of anxiety sensitivity and other theoretically relevant
personality factors to Copper's [Psychological Assessment 6 (1994) 117.] four categories of …

Food addiction: an examination of the diagnostic criteria for dependence

AN Gearhardt, WR Corbin… - Journal of addiction …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
The evidence for food's addictive properties is steadily growing. In addition to clinical and
evolutionary plausibility, the possibility of addiction to food is supported by animal model …

Development and validation of the drinking motive questionnaire revised short form (DMQ–R SF)

E Kuntsche, S Kuntsche - Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
A short form of the Drinking Motive Questionnaire Revised (DMQ–R; Cooper,) was
developed, using different item selection strategies based on a national representative …

Minority stress, masculinity, and social norms predicting gay men's health risk behaviors.

CJ Hamilton, JR Mahalik - Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
The authors examined the contributions of the minority stress model, traditional masculine
gender roles, and perceived social norms in accounting for gay men's use of alcohol …