Drinking Motives Questionnaire, Revised (DMQ-R)
Psychology: Health & Sleep1 sample item
About this scale
According to some alcohol and drug researchers, alcohol is the most harmful drug around. This point was made in an influential study by Nutt and colleagues (2010) . The level of alcohol consumption is of great concern, even more so in adolescents. Even drinking small amounts of alcohol on a daily basis can have serious long term effects . For example:
Sample item(s)
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Notes
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Source & citation
Cooper, M. L. (1994). Motivations for Alcohol Use Among Adolescents: Development and Validation of a Four-Factor Model. Psychological Assessment, 6(2) , 117-128. | Web resources about the scale | Kuntsche, E, Knibbe, R., Gmel, G, Engels, R (2006). Replication and Validation of the Drinking Motive Questionnaire Revised (DMQ-R, Cooper, 1994) among Adolescents in Switzerland. European Addiction Research, 12 , 161-168. | Kuntsche E and Kuntsche S. (2009). Development and validation of the Drinking Motive Questionnaire Revised Short Form (DMQ-R SF). Journal of Clinincal Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38 , 899-908. | Nutt, D. J., King, L. A., & Phillips, L. D. (2010). Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis. Lancet, 376 , 1558-1565. | Seitz, H.K., Pelucchi C., Bagnardi, V. & La Vecchia, C. (2012). Epidemiology and pathophysiology of alcohol and breast cancer: Update 2012. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 47 , 2014-2012. | Yoneyama, K. & Lima, J.A.C. Alcohol Consumption and Myocardial Remodeling in Elderly Women and Men. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, 8 , e003523.
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