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.