Alcohol use in adolescence: a qualitative longitudinal study of mediators for drinking and non-drinking

Buvik, Kristin; Tokle, Rikke; Bilgrei, Ola Røed; Scheffels, Janne

doi:10.1080/09687637.2021.1952931

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“…In our study, non-consumers also struggled with friends socialising, but they were more successful in social arenas involving parents and school. In qualitative findings [36], mid/late adolescent abstainers described non-drinking as related to loneliness and a lack of social life, which excluded them from certain social arenas in their peer environment. Other abstainers described a closeness to their parents and did not want to disappoint them by drinking and that their friends also were non-drinkers.…”

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Psychosocial correlates of drinking transitions: A longitudinal study among adolescents in Sweden

Sjödin

Karlsson

Raninen

2023

Drug and Alcohol Review

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IntroductionNon‐drinkers have been shown in older studies to have poorer mental health and social life compared to their alcohol‐using counterparts. Given the profound decline in adolescent drinking observed in most high‐income countries, this pattern may have changed. This study explores drinking transitions and examines psychosocial factors among adolescents by longitudinal drinking status.MethodsData were based on two waves of a prospective longitudinal nationwide study (n = 4018). The first wave (T1) of data was collected in 2017 (age 15/16) and the second wave (T2) was in 2019 (age 17/18). Respondents were asked about their past year drinking status, general health, psychosomatic problems, psychiatric medication, school enjoyment, emotional symptoms, peer relationship problems, prosocial ability, friendships satisfaction and satisfaction with relation to mother/father. Comparisons by mean values were assessed and multinomial logistic regressions were used to examine associations.ResultsAbstainers and later drinkers differed significantly from early drinkers on 9/10 factors respectively at T1. Fewer psychosomatic problems, less psychiatric medication, higher school enjoyment, more emotional symptoms, higher parental relationship satisfaction, more peer problems and lower friendships satisfaction at T1 were associated with abstaining and/or later drinking. All factors were more strongly associated with abstaining. School enjoyment predicted abstaining but not later drinking.Discussion and ConclusionsLongitudinal drinking status relates to small to moderate systematic psychosocial differences. Adolescents with better mental health, more content relationships with parents and lower friendships satisfaction are more often abstainers. Those generally worse off are more likely early drinkers but they also have better friendships.

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Psychosocial correlates of drinking transitions: A longitudinal study among adolescents in Sweden

Sjödin

Karlsson

Raninen

2023

Drug and Alcohol Review

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“…Let us first start by rephrasing the question and ask: why did HED occasions decline relatively more than drinking occasions? Some tentative explanations can be found in recent qualitative studies of adolescent drinking and drinking patterns [25][26][27][28][29]. In a study from Norway, adolescents aged 15-16 years gave their accounts of reasons for non-drinking.…”

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“…Another example is the effects of drinking on achievements in sports or education [25]. A longitudinal study among 15-17-year-olds in Norway [27] found that adolescent drinkers highlighted the importance of responsible drinking and having control. Similarly, a qualitative study from Sweden conducted among somewhat older participants, i.e., 17-21-year-olds, showed that both abstainers and drinkers considered acceptable alcohol use as drinking moderate and being in control [28].…”

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The Declining Trend in Adolescent Drinking: Do Volume and Drinking Pattern Go Hand in Hand?

Rossow

Bye

Moan

2022

IJERPH

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Traditionally, adolescent drinking cultures differed between Nordic and Mediterranean countries; the former being characterised by low volume and relatively frequent heavy episodic drinking (HED). Across these drinking cultures, we examined the associations between alcohol volume and HED with respect to (i) secular trends at the country level and (ii) individual-level associations over time. The data stem from the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) conducted among 15–16-year-olds in Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, France and Italy, employing six cross-sectional surveys from 1999 to 2019 (n = 126,126). Both consumption volume and HED frequency decreased in all Nordic countries and displayed a curvilinear trend in France and Italy. In all countries, consumption volume and HED correlated highly over time at the country level. At the individual level, the correlation was positive but with a varying magnitude over time and between countries. In 1999/2003, the alcohol volume–HED correlation was significantly higher in the Nordic compared to the Mediterranean countries but became significantly weaker in Finland, Norway and Sweden and remained stable in France, Iceland and Italy during the period. In conclusion, while trends in consumption volume and drinking patterns went hand in hand at the aggregate level, the association at the individual level weakened over time in several Nordic countries, along with the substantial decline in adolescent drinking since 2000.

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“…Social drinking is also complexly intertwined with peer status hierarchies. Drinking alcohol can contribute to social capital (Demant and Järvinen, 2011) and signify group belonging (Buvik et al, 2022). Subsequently, many young people are eager to participate, despite being well aware of the sexual risks involved – particularly for girls (Tokle et al, 2023).…”

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What Happened to Me? Ambiguity and Surety in Narratives of Intoxicated Sexual Assault

Stefansen,

Solstad,

Tokle

2023

Sociology

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Intoxicated sexual assault is the most common type of sexual assault but is rarely unpacked as a social phenomenon. Our analysis represents a novel approach to opening the broad category of intoxicated sexual assaults for further theorisation and identifies some of the social mechanisms that underlie victims’ sensemaking in the aftermath of such assaults. Drawing on qualitative interviews with female victims, we present a typology of four experientially different assault situations: ‘manipulative assault’, ‘opportunistic exploitation’, ‘sexually violent effervescence’ and ‘scripted compliance’ – each with a different lead-up and interactional pattern. Across these often messy and disorienting situations, socio-sexual status dynamics affected the victims’ understanding of what had happened: violations by low-status assailants were more clear-cut and easier to define as serious, while narrations involving high-status assailants were more ambiguous.

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Alcohol use in adolescence: a qualitative longitudinal study of mediators for drinking and non-drinking

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Psychosocial correlates of drinking transitions: A longitudinal study among adolescents in Sweden

Psychosocial correlates of drinking transitions: A longitudinal study among adolescents in Sweden

The Declining Trend in Adolescent Drinking: Do Volume and Drinking Pattern Go Hand in Hand?

What Happened to Me? Ambiguity and Surety in Narratives of Intoxicated Sexual Assault

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