Exploring the changing landscape of youth drinking—we are still drawing the map

Raninen, Jonas; Livingston, Michael

doi:10.1111/dar.12808

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“…Since 2013, when the prevalence of drinking dropped to 47 per cent, drinking is no longer the majority behaviour among Swedish ninth graders. Similar trends have been observed in most western countries [19][20][21][22]. Against this background with trends of declining drinking and increase of non-drinkers that has been so marked that it has also led to a shift in the majority behaviour, there is a need to assess what the changing social status of drinking implies for our understanding of non-drinking in adolescence.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…The trends in youth drinking are still unexplained and we do not know what is behind the decrease in drinking and the rise of non-drinking [20,22,30]. Maybe one reason for the lack of convincing explanations is that researchers are still thinking of not drinking as a minority behaviour whilst if we are to go looking for explanations for 'normal' youth behaviour we need other approaches, much like the case of understanding illicit drug use in Britain during the 1990s [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Normalization of Non-Drinking? Health, School Situation and Social Relations among Swedish Ninth Graders That Drink and Do Not Drink Alcohol

Raninen

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Svensson

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Alcohol consumption is a major contributor to the disease burden among adolescents. The adolescent alcohol abstainer is still often depicted as problematic in the research literature and in prominent theoretical frameworks. However, over the past two decades, there has been a marked trend of declining youth drinking in Sweden. The declining trend has led to a shift in the majority behaviour of youth, from drinking to non-drinking. It is plausible that this trend has also shifted the position of non-drinkers. This paper examines the position of non-drinkers in a nationally representative sample of Swedish adolescents. A survey was carried out in 2017 in 500 randomly selected schools. A total of 5549 respondents (15–16-year-olds) agreed to participate and answered the questionnaire. A minority (42.8%) had consumed alcohol during their lifetime. The results show that non-drinkers had better health and school performance when compared to drinkers. The results also showed that there were no differences in the social position between non-drinkers and drinkers. These findings are new and indicate a changed position of non-drinkers among Swedish adolescents. With non-drinking being the majority behaviour among Swedish adolescents this seems to have shifted the position of non-drinkers. There is a need for research on the long-term importance of not drinking during adolescence.

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Normalization of Non-Drinking? Health, School Situation and Social Relations among Swedish Ninth Graders That Drink and Do Not Drink Alcohol

Raninen

Larm

Svensson

et al. 2021

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“…A growing number of studies show that since the turn of the millennium, teenagers have been increasingly less likely to consume alcohol at all, to consume alcohol regularly and to engage in heavy episodic drinking (HED) [1–3]. In recent years literature examining possible explanations for this decline has increased [4–11]. Unfortunately, these studies are mostly limited to the development in single countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nordic studies have suggested that the perception of access to alcohol has changed among youth [6]. Studies in Sweden [5,27] and Finland [28] indicate that parental provision of alcoholic beverages has dropped in recent years.…”

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Similar countries, similar factors? Studying the decline of heavy episodic drinking in adolescents in Finland, Norway and Sweden

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Aim To (i) examine several factors associated with trends in heavy episodic drinking (HED) in Finland, Norway and Sweden, (ii) investigate similarities in these associations across the countries and (iii) analyse the contribution of these factors to the trend in HED and the differences across the countries. Design and Setting Observational study using five waves of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) from Finland, Norway and Sweden between 1999 and 2015. Participants A total of 18 128 male and 19 121 female 15‐ to 16‐year‐old students. Measurements Monthly HED, perceived access to alcohol, truancy, parental control, leisure time activities and daily smoking. The Cochran–Armitage test was used to examine linear time trends in HED. Logit regression models using the Karlson–Holm–Breen (KHB) method were fitted for each country separately, including all the independent variables together with time and adjusted for family status, parental education and gender. Findings In Finland, Norway and Sweden, perceived access to alcohol, truancy and daily smoking decreased significantly between 1999 and 2015 whereas risk perceptions, parental control and participation in sports increased in the same period. The confounding percentage of all the independent variables related to the trend in HED was 48.8%, 68.9% and 36.7% for Finland, Norway and Sweden, respectively. Decline in daily smoking (P < 0.001) and perceived access to alcohol (P < 0.001) were positively and increase in parental control (P < 0.001) negatively associated with the decline in HED in all three countries. Changes in truancy, going out with friends, and engaging in sports and other hobbies had little or no impact on the decline in HED or displayed no consistent results across the countries. Conclusions The decline in adolescent heavy episodic drinking in Finland, Norway and Sweden between 1999 and 2015 appears to be associated with a decline in adolescent daily smoking and perceived access to alcohol and an increase in parental control.

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“…Young people of today are called a 'sober generation.' This substantial decrease in young people's drinking has puzzled researchers, politicians, and the public, and little is still known about the mechanisms behind it (Raninen and Livingston 2018). Recent studies have presented multiple explanations, and our study is part of a longitudinal project investigating this change in drinking culture (see Törrönen et al 2019Törrönen et al , 2020aTörrönen et al , 2020bTörrönen et al , 2020c.…”

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confidence: 96%

Doing adulthood—doing alcohol: what happens when the ‘sober generation’ grows up?

Månsson

Samuelsson

Törrönen

2020

Journal of Youth Studies

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Exploring the changing landscape of youth drinking—we are still drawing the map

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Normalization of Non-Drinking? Health, School Situation and Social Relations among Swedish Ninth Graders That Drink and Do Not Drink Alcohol

Normalization of Non-Drinking? Health, School Situation and Social Relations among Swedish Ninth Graders That Drink and Do Not Drink Alcohol

Similar countries, similar factors? Studying the decline of heavy episodic drinking in adolescents in Finland, Norway and Sweden

Doing adulthood—doing alcohol: what happens when the ‘sober generation’ grows up?

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