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

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_1A665B8EB01A
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Sous-type
Synthèse (review): revue aussi complète que possible des connaissances sur un sujet, rédigée à partir de l'analyse exhaustive des travaux publiés.
Collection
Publications
Titre
Who drinks and why? A review of socio-demographic, personality, and contextual issues behind the drinking motives in young people
Périodique
Addictive Behaviors
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Kuntsche  E., Knibbe  R., Gmel  G., Engels  R.
ISSN
0306-4603 (Print)
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
10/2006
Volume
31
Numéro
10
Pages
1844-57
Notes
Journal Article
Review --- Old month value: Oct
Résumé
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. In a computer-assisted search of relevant literature, 82 studies were identified. Concerning demographic factors, a developmental trend was found - from general, undifferentiated drinking motives in late childhood and early adolescence to more gender-specific drinking motives in subsequent years. With regard to personality factors, two specific patterns can be distinguished: extraversion and sensation-seeking correlate with enhancement motives, while neuroticism and anxiety correlate most strongly with coping motives. For contextual factors, drinking motives were found to vary across countries but not among different ethnic groups in the same culture. Based on these results, preventive strategies should take into account general, undifferentiated drinking motivation in late childhood, and social and enhancement motives in adolescence, particularly among boys. Findings on personality indicate that it would be useful to focus on extraverted, sensation-seeking boys who drink for enhancement motives and neurotic, anxious girls who drink for coping motives.
Mots-clé
Adaptation, Psychological Adolescent Adult Age Factors Alcohol Drinking/*psychology Anxiety/etiology Child Culture Humans *Motivation Personality Sex Factors
Pubmed
Web of science
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