The association between drinking motives and alcohol-related consequences room for biases and measurement issues?
Addiction, 08/09/2012
Gmel G et al. – Standard scoring of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire (Revised) fails to capture motives in a way that permits specific associations with different negative consequences to be identified, whereas use of rank or Z–scores does permit this. Use of attributed consequences overestimates the association with drinking motives.



