The association between drinking motives and alcohol-related consequences - room for biases and measurement issues

Addiction

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1580-1589

  Gmel, Gerhard ^a,b,c,d   Labhart, Florian ^a   Fallu, Jean Sébastien ^e   Kuntsche, Emmanuel ^a,f  

^a ADDICTION SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causal attribution; Drinking motives; Predictor criterion contamination bias; Scale transformation; School surveys

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SWITZERLAND; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SWITZERLAND; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84864772216     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03892.x     Document Type: Article

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