Validation and Transference of Drinking Motives

This work provides empirical evidence to back up 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 second states that drinking
motives can be used to better target intervention approaches
due to the proximity of drinking motives to alcohol-related outcomes.
The third assumption deals with the question to what degree
considerations of the Motivational Model of Alcohol Use can be
transferred to other domains of human functioning.
The 12 empirical studies included here clearly demonstrate that
drinking motives (a) are cross-culturally valid, (b1) serve as proximal
predictors of alcohol use, i.e. the gateway through which more
distal factors such as alcohol expectancies, personality factors and
parental drinking habits are mediated, (b2) are useful in intervention
approaches to reduce adolescent risky drinking and (c) can
be transferred to other domains of human functioning such as
using the Internet, listening to music and using amphetaminetype
stimulants.