@article{ref1,
title="Why do young people drink? A review of drinking motives",
journal="Clinical psychology review",
year="2005",
author="Engels, Rutger and Gmel, Gerhard and Knibbe, Ronald A. and Kuntsche, Emmanuel",
volume="25",
number="7",
pages="841-861",
abstract="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 search of relevant articles was conducted. Results revealed that most young people reported drinking for social motives, some indicated enhancement motives, and only a few reported coping motives. Social motives appear to be associated with moderate alcohol use, enhancement with heavy drinking, and coping motives with alcohol-related problems. However, an enormous heterogeneity was found in terms of how motives were measured: 10 to 40 items were grouped into between 2 and 10 dimensions and sometimes the same items occurred under different dimensions. Future studies should therefore use well-defined, theoretically based, homogenous instruments to disentangle cultural from measurement differences across surveys.",
language="",
issn="0272-7358",
doi="10.1016/j.cpr.2005.06.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2005.06.002"
}