Drinking in the Age of the Great Recession

Richman, Judith A.; Rospenda, Kathleen M.; Johnson, Timothy P.; Cho, Young Ilk; Vijayasira, Ganga; Cloninger, Lea

doi:10.1080/10550887.2012.665692

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“…The measure of economyrelated stressors was the Life Change Consequences of the Great Recession instrument, for which evidence of both reliability and construct validity is available (Richman et al, 2012). The items included in this inventory were published by Richman et al (2012) and fall into seven categories: home ownership problems, undesirable living situation, problematic employment situation, unemployment or underemployment, inadequate health insurance, social role constraints, and inadequate sick time. Consistent with common practice, each score for this measure is a straight count of the number of stressors reported.…”

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“…Data were derived from a national study conducted between June 2010 and January 2011 that was undertaken to understand life change consequences of the major downturn in the economy known as the Great Recession (Richman et al, 2012). Respondents were selected by a random-digit-dial phone survey of the continental United States, and those who consented to participate in the study were mailed questionnaires.…”

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“…This crisis-commonly referred to as the Great Recessionhas had persisting negative effects, ranging from job loss and less desirable working conditions to home loss, the loss of retirement savings, fewer health care choices, and social isolation (Richman et al, 2012).…”

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“…Poststratifi cation weights were calculated for the data set to ensure that the distribution of sample cases on important demographic variables (age, race/ethnicity, and gender) conformed to the distribution of these variables in the Census Bureau's 2008 U.S. population estimates. Additional details regarding the study procedures and sample are presented by Richman et al (2012). …”

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Sex Differences in Mediating and Moderating Processes Linking Economic Stressors, Psychological Distress, and Drinking

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2012

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Given the recent downturn in the U.S. economy, we considered in this study the processes linking economic stressors, psychological distress, and two alcohol-related outcomes (past-month drinking and problematic drinking). Method: Data were drawn from a mail survey of a national sample of 663 respondents. Structural equation modeling was used to assess whether psychological distress mediates the associations between economic stressors and the alcohol-related outcomes considered and whether these associations varied by gender. Results: Controlling for correlations among the outcomes and the effects of the sociodemographic control variables, psychological distress was found to partly explain the association between economic stressors and problematic drinking. The mediating effects on problematic drinking were signifi cantly greater for men than women. Conclusions: The fi ndings demonstrate the utility of considering interrelationships among alcohol-related outcomes and, in this context, reveal the circumstances in which gender matters most for understanding the associations among economy-related stressors, psychological distress, and drinking. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 73, 811-819, 2012) Received: January 17, 2012. Revision: May 17, 2012. This research was funded by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) grant R01AA017202 to Judith A. Richman. The article's contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the offi cial views of NIAAA.*Correspondence may be sent to Robyn Lewis Brown at DePaul University, Department of Sociology, 990 West Fullerton Ave., Suite 1100, Chicago, IL 60614, or via email at: rbrown50@depaul.edu. economic circumstances and their consequences. This is consistent with the tendency of stress research, more generally, to focus on individual-level stressors and overlook potential linkages between broader social forces and personal hardship (Galea, 2007;Richman et al., 2008; Turner and Lloyd, 2005).Addressing this limitation, the present study applies a broader defi nition of economy-related strain that includes diminished quality of and compensation from employment (e.g., decreased hours, furloughs, lack of merit raises, increased responsibilities at work resulting from the layoffs of other workers, and not obtaining jobs congruent with one's education and skill level), home ownership problems and undesirable living conditions, lack of access to or inability to afford health care, social role constraints, unemployment, and underemployment. We examined how such strains infl uence psychological distress and alcoholrelated outcomes, applying a tension-reduction or selfmedication model of drinking. This perspective maintains that alcohol is often used to cope with psychological distress, as well as the stressful life experiences that elicit distress (Richman et al., 1997(Richman et al., , 2002Steele and Josephs, 1990).Additionally, because men are consistently found to drink more than women and experience more alcohol-...

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“…Men were more negatively affected by their economic problems than women [17]. There was also a small decline in alcohol use between the time periods 2006-2007 and 2008-2009, with a simultaneous increase in the prevalence of frequent binging [18].…”

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Is Binge Drinking Prevalent in Greece after the Emergence of the Economic Crisis? Assessment of This Idea Using the Theory of Planned Behavior

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This paper aims to evaluate the impact of the ongoing economic crisis in Greece on alcohol consumption and binge drinking. For this reason, the Theory of Planned Behavior is being applied by using a sample of nearly 900 questionnaires. The questionnaire consists of parts trying to identify the attitude of the interviewees towards alcohol, their subjective norms of social environment, and the perceived behavioral control. This research has been implemented on a national level. The most important finding is the considerable difference in alcohol consumption compared with other countries faced similar negative economic situations. Drinking is considered as a source of pleasure and socializing. The participants' perception is that family environment and friends are not considering drinking as a non-desirable way of entertainment. As one of the major results of the survey, drinking was found to not be driven by a necessity to overcome problems related to it, which is the main difference with previous studies in others countries, like Argentina, Russia, USA, etc.

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Factors associated with county‐level mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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The objective of this study is to determine county‐level factors associated with anxiety, depression, and isolation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. This study used daily data from 23,592,355 respondents of a nationwide Facebook‐based survey from April 2020 to July 2021, aggregated to the week‐county level to yield 212,581 observations. Mental distress prevalences were modeled using weighted linear mixed‐effects models with a county random effect. These models revealed that weekly percentages of mental distress were higher in counties with higher unemployment rates, populations, and education levels; higher percentages of females, young adults, individuals with a medical condition, and individuals very worried about their finances and COVID‐19; and lower percentages of individuals who were working outside the home, living with children, without health insurance, and Black. Anxiety peaked in April 2020, depression in October 2020, and isolation in December 2020. Therefore, United States counties experienced the mental health effects of the pandemic differently dependent upon their characteristics, and mental distress prevalence varied across time.

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Drinking in the Age of the Great Recession

Cited by 36 publications

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Sex Differences in Mediating and Moderating Processes Linking Economic Stressors, Psychological Distress, and Drinking

Sex Differences in Mediating and Moderating Processes Linking Economic Stressors, Psychological Distress, and Drinking

Is Binge Drinking Prevalent in Greece after the Emergence of the Economic Crisis? Assessment of This Idea Using the Theory of Planned Behavior

Factors associated with county‐level mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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