Gender differences in alcohol and other drug use

Corrigan, Eileen M.

doi:10.1016/0306-4603(85)90013-9

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“…Previous studies reported that gender differences in alcohol drinking behaviour were associated with physiological or biological predispositions [7-12] and gender-role orientations [13-17]. In particular, the social norms of South Korean ("Korea" hereafter) are still dominated primarily by a traditional values based on Confucianism, so social activities and alcohol drinking culture were permitted only to adult men in past.…”

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Why is high-risk drinking more prevalent among men than women? evidence from South Korea

2012

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BackgroundIt is important to identify and quantify the factors that affect gender differences in high-risk drinking (HRD), from both an academic and a policy perspective. However, little is currently known about them. This study examines these factors and estimates the percentage contribution each makes to gender differences in HRD.MethodsThis study analyzed information on 23,587 adults obtained from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Surveys of 1998, 2001, and 2005. It found that the prevalence of HRD was about 5 times higher among men (0.37) than women (0.08). Using a decomposition approach extended from the Oaxaca-Blinder method, we decomposed the gender difference in HRD to an "overall composition effect" (contributions due to gender differences in the distribution of observed socio-economic characteristics), and an "overall HRD-tendency effect" (contributions due to gender differences in tendencies in HRD for individuals who share socio-economic characteristics).ResultsThe HRD-tendency effect accounted for 96% of the gender difference in HRD in South Korea, whereas gender differences in observed socio-economic characteristics explained just 4% of the difference. Notably, the gender-specific HRD-tendency effect accounts for 90% of the gender difference in HRD.ConclusionWe came to a finding that gender-specific HRD tendency is the greatest contributor to gender differences in HRD. Therefore, to effective reduce HRD, it will be necessary to understand gender differences in socioeconomic characteristics between men and women but also take notice of such differences in sociocultural settings as they experience. And it will be also required to prepare any gender-differentiated intervention strategy for men and women.

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Why is high-risk drinking more prevalent among men than women? evidence from South Korea

2012

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“…Since males' and females' intoxication levels are also affected by other relevant factors such as biological characteristics, e.g. metabolism (Corrigan, 1985;McCrady, 1988), future research may take into account additional factors, as well as obtain more sophisticated data regarding quantity of alcohol consumed, duration of dritiking episode, and body weight in order to measure blood alcohol more precisely. Lo, C. C. & GLOBETTI, G. (1993b) Harm reduction, not alcohol consumption reduction SIR-Hans Emblad's commentary on advertising a "sensible drinking" message to the entire world, while perhaps well-intentioned, is disturbing in its lack of a realistic appraisal of the world as it exists in the 1990s.…”

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