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Emmanuel Kuntsche

Emmanuel Kuntsche

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Psychology

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67
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16070
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2605
National Ranking
127

Overview

Emmanuel Kuntsche is affiliated with La Trobe University in Australia and has a research profile that spans multiple fields related to medicine and psychology. Their work primarily focuses on substance abuse treatment and outcomes, with additional emphasis on behavioral health and interventions, homelessness and social issues, and alcohol consumption and health effects.

The scientist's publication record includes studies published in prominent journals, reflecting diverse aspects of substance use and public health. Recent papers include:

  • Shifts in alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic: early indications from Australia (2020, Addiction)
  • Purchasing, consumption, demographic and socioeconomic variables associated with shifts in alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, Drug and Alcohol Review)
  • Digital health interventions for all? Examining inclusivity across all stages of the digital health intervention research process (2024, Trials)
  • Wearable Transdermal Alcohol Monitors: A Systematic Review of Detection Validity, and Relationship Between Transdermal and Breath Alcohol Concentration and Influencing Factors (2020, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research)
  • The who and what of women's drinking: Examining risky drinking and associated socio-demographic factors among women aged 40-65 years in Australia (2022, Drug and Alcohol Review)

Emmanuel Kuntsche's research is frequently published in several high-impact venues, including:

  • Drug and Alcohol Review
  • Addiction
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Alcohol and Alcoholism

The scientist collaborates extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Sandra Kuntsche, Benjamin C. Riordan, Cassandra J. C. Wright, Dan Anderson-Luxford, and Koen Smit.

Their academic contributions are categorized primarily under the broader fields of Medicine and Psychology, with significant attention to subfields such as Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Applied Psychology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Sociology and Political Science.

Key research topics addressed in their publications cover the following:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges

Best Publications

  • Why do young people drink? A review of drinking motives.

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Ronald A. Knibbe;Gerhard Gmel;Rutger Engels

  • Characteristics of binge drinkers in Europe

    E Kuntsche;J Rehm;J Rehm;G Gmel

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

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Ronald A. Knibbe;Gerhard Gmel;Rutger Engels

  • Motivational models of substance use: A review of theory and research on motives for using alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco.

    M. Lynne Cooper;Emmanuel Kuntsche;Ash Levitt;Lindsay L Barber

  • Binge drinking: Health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Sandra Kuntsche;Johannes Thrul;Gerhard Gmel

  • Drinking at European universities? A review of students' alcohol use

    Matthias Wicki;Emmanuel Kuntsche;Gerhard Gmel;Gerhard Gmel

  • Development and Validation of the Drinking Motive Questionnaire Revised Short Form (DMQ–R SF)

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Sandra Kuntsche

  • How stable is the motive-alcohol use link? A cross-national validation of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire Revised among adolescents from Switzerland, Canada, and the United States.

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Sherry H Stewart;M Lynne Cooper

  • Binge drinking in Europe: definitions, epidemiology, and consequences

    Gerhard Gmel;Jürgen Rehm;Emmanuel Kuntsche

  • Decreases in adolescent weekly alcohol use in Europe and North America: evidence from 28 countries from 2002 to 2010.

    Margaretha de Looze;Quinten Raaijmakers;Tom ter Bogt;Pernille Bendtsen

  • Risky single‐occasion drinking: bingeing is not bingeing

    Gerhard Gmel;Emmanuel Kuntsche;Emmanuel Kuntsche;Jürgen T. Rehm;Jürgen T. Rehm;Jürgen T. Rehm

  • Drinking Motives as Mediators of the Link Between Alcohol Expectancies and Alcohol Use Among Adolescents

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Ronald Knibbe;Rutger Engels;Gerhard Gmel

  • Personality factors and alcohol use: A mediator analysis of drinking motives

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Madeleine von Fischer;Gerhard Gmel;Gerhard Gmel

  • Cultural and Gender Convergence in Adolescent Drunkenness Evidence From 23 European and North American Countries

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Emmanuel Kuntsche;Sandra Kuntsche;Ronald Knibbe;Bruce Simons-Morton

  • Cross national study of injury and social determinants in adolescents

    William Pickett;Michal Molcho;K. Simpson;Ian Janssen

  • Drinking Motives and Links to Alcohol Use in 13 European Countries

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Saoirse Nic Gabhainn;Chris Roberts;Béat Windlin

  • Replication and validation of the Drinking Motive Questionnaire Revised (DMQ-R, Cooper, 1994) among adolescents in Switzerland.

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Ronald Knibbe;Gerhard Gmel;Rutger Engels

  • Parent-based interventions for preventing or reducing adolescent substance use — A systematic literature review

    Sandra Kuntsche;Emmanuel Kuntsche

  • Adolescent alcohol and cannabis use in relation to peer and school factors. Results of multilevel analyses.

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Marina Delgrande Jordan

  • Gender specific trends in alcohol use: cross-cultural comparisons from 1998 to 2006 in 24 countries and regions.

    Bruce G. Simons-Morton;Tilda Farhat;Tom F. M. ter Bogt;Anne Hublet

  • Motivational Models of Substance Use

    M. Lynne Cooper;Emmanuel Kuntsche;Ash Levitt;Lindsay L. Barber

  • Binge drinking: Health impact, prevalence,correlates and interventions - eScholarship

    Emmanuel Kuntsche;Sandra Kuntsche;Johannes Thrul;Gerhard Gmel

Frequent Co-Authors

Rutger C. M. E. Engels
Rutger C. M. E. Engels Erasmus University Rotterdam
Roy Otten
Roy Otten Radboud University
Marloes Kleinjan
Marloes Kleinjan Utrecht University
Tom F. M. ter Bogt
Tom F. M. ter Bogt Utrecht University
Zsolt Demetrovics
Zsolt Demetrovics Flinders University
Róbert Urbán
Róbert Urbán Eötvös Loránd University
Samantha Wells
Samantha Wells Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Alessio Vieno
Alessio Vieno University of Padua
Anna Kokkevi
Anna Kokkevi National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Sherry H. Stewart
Sherry H. Stewart Dalhousie University

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