‘Social health’, ‘physical health’, and well-being: Analysing with bourdieusian concepts the interplay between the practices of heavy drinking and exercise among young people

Törrönen, Jukka; Samuelsson, Eva; Roumeliotis, Filip; Room, Robin; Kraus, Ludwig

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102825

Cited by 24 publications

(22 citation statements)

References 37 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This article is based on the third interview occasion, including 39 participants with an age range from 17 to 21 years old. Previous results have concentrated on the first and second interview occasions to understand this change when the participants were 15-19 years old (Törrönen et al 2019(Törrönen et al , 2020a(Törrönen et al , 2020b(Törrönen et al , 2020c. The results corroborate previous findings (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…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. In this project, young people in Sweden have been interviewed on three occasions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

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

Månsson

Samuelsson

Törrönen

2020

Journal of Youth Studies

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Månsson

Samuelsson

Törrönen

2020

Journal of Youth Studies

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…There are also reports of normalising non-drinking in this generation [36,37], with small or no differences seen between drinkers and non-drinkers [38]. There is also some evidence that today's youth are more health-conscious [39,40]. Since risk factors and risky behaviours tend to cluster together and co-occur [41], it will be interesting to examine what this means for the drinking habits of today's youth in the long term.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

17 Is the New 15: Changing Alcohol Consumption among Swedish Youth

Raninen

Livingston

Ramstedt

et al. 2022

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

To examine and compare trends in drinking prevalence in nationally representative samples of Swedish 9th and 11th grade students between 2000 and 2018. A further aim is to compare drinking behaviours in the two age groups during years with similar drinking prevalence. Data were drawn from annual surveys of a nationally representative sample of students in year 9 (15–16 years old) and year 11 (17–18 years old). The data covered 19 years for year 9 and 16 years for year 11. Two reference years where the prevalence of drinking was similar were extracted for further comparison, 2018 for year 11 (n = 4878) and 2005 for year 9 (n = 5423). The reference years were compared with regard to the volume of drinking, heavy episodic drinking, having had an accident and quarrelling while drunk. The prevalence of drinking declined in both age groups during the study period. The rate of decline was somewhat higher among year 9 students. In 2018, the prevalence of drinking was the same for year 11 students as it was for year 9 students in 2005. The volume of drinking was lower among year 11 students in 2018 than year 9 students in 2005. No differences were observed for heavy episodic drinking. The decline in drinking has caused a displacement of consumption so that today’s 17–18-year-olds have a similar drinking behaviour to what 15–16-year-olds had in 2005.

show abstract

“…This is also true for our participants with a parental background from the Middle East. Even though they drink moderately or not at all in accordance with their cultural background (Michalak & Trocki, 2006), they participate in party situations and orientate to health activities by making sense of them with similar kinds of gendered binaries as our participants with Swedish background (see also Törrönen et al, 2020b).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health, risk-taking and well-being: doing gender in relation to discourses and practices of heavy drinking and health among young people

Törrönen

Samuelsson

Roumeliotis

2020

Health, Risk & Society

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the last 20 years, adolescents' heavy drinking in many western countries has declined. Simultaneously, researchers have identified an increased interest in health among young people. The paper compares adolescents' gendered discourses and practices on intoxication and health in order to clarify the role gender plays in their current low alcohol consumption. The data consists of semi-structured interviews about alcohol, health and leisure activities among adolescents aged between 15 and 19 (N = 56). In the coding of the material, we have singled out two approaches to health and well-being among the participants, which we name the 'social' and 'physical health' approaches. By drawing on Butler's work on 'gender as performativity', Connell's understanding of gendered identities as 'multidimensional' and Bourdieu's concept of 'habitus', we analyse how the participants align with, negotiate or oppose the hegemonic masculinities and femininities in these approaches, and examine the everyday practices that the two approaches are embedded in. Our analysis shows that the participants' gendered performances in the 'physical health' approach are more variable, reflective and critical than those in the 'social health' approach. Moreover, the physical health approach modifies young people's risktaking practices of heavy drinking and helps to reinforce practices that favour young people's low alcohol consumption. We propose that the move from doing gender in relation to risk-taking by heavy drinking towards doing it more through health-and physical appearance-related activities may generate processes that narrow the gender gap between masculinities and femininities and encourage new kinds of interaction and gender blending between them.

show abstract

‘Social health’, ‘physical health’, and well-being: Analysing with bourdieusian concepts the interplay between the practices of heavy drinking and exercise among young people

Cited by 24 publications

References 37 publications

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

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

17 Is the New 15: Changing Alcohol Consumption among Swedish Youth

Health, risk-taking and well-being: doing gender in relation to discourses and practices of heavy drinking and health among young people

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About