The Gender Gap in Alcohol Consumption during Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Gendered Attitudes and Adult Roles

Christie‐Mizell, C. André; Peralta, Robert L.

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“…Marriage has been shown to reduce alcohol and marijuana use and, to a lesser extent, cigarette smoking among young adult men and women (Bachman et al, 1997a;Christie-Mizell and Peralta, 2009;Curran et al, 1998;Merline et al, 2008;Yamaguchi and Kandel, 1985).…”

Section: Substance Use In Young Adulthoodmentioning

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Men's and Women's Pathways to Adulthood and Associated Substance Misuse

Oesterle¹,

Hawkins²,

Hill³

2011

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Social role transitions have been linked to changes in substance use and misuse during young adulthood. This study examined how commonly observed pathways to adulthood, defi ned by education, employment, marriage, and parenthood, were associated with alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana misuse from ages 18 to 33. Method: Data came from a longitudinal panel of 412 men and 396 women recruited when they were in fi fth grade in Seattle public schools in 1985. Participants were followed through age 33 in 2008, with 92% retention. Results: Young adults who had little postsecondary education and remained unmarried through age 30 generally had the highest rates of substance misuse. Those who were involved in postsecondary education and postponed family formation had the lowest rates, particularly with respect to daily smoking and nicotine dependence. Parenting during the young adult years was associated with lower rates of substance misuse for both men and women. However, taking on parenting responsibilities early, during the late teen years and early 20s (observed mostly for women), was associated with higher rates of tobacco misuse. Differences in substance misuse by pathways to adulthood were fairly constant across the young adulthood years and were already observed at age 18, suggesting that substance misuse patterns are established early. Conclusions: Young adults may change their substance use only partially in response to new freedoms and responsibilities in young adulthood. Preventive efforts should include a focus on early initiation of substance use and educational experiences that move people into life trajectories and associated substance misuse patterns. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 72,

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Section: Substance Use In Young Adulthoodmentioning

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Men's and Women's Pathways to Adulthood and Associated Substance Misuse

Oesterle¹,

Hawkins²,

Hill³

2011

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…However, our fi ndings suggest some caution in assuming that past-12-month drinking, particularly when assessed during young adulthood, is a reasonable indicator of lifetime typical drinking, because the lower correlations between drinking at Wave 4 (age range: 17-27 years) and Wave 6 (age range: 28-41 years) do suggest that developmental factors continue to modify drinking patterns well into adulthood. The variation in drinking between young and later adulthood may refl ect exposure to pro-drinking milieus in college (Bartholow et al, 2003;Sher et al, 2001), which may contribute to some of the specifi city of past-12-month alcohol consumption at Wave 4, as well as the transition to employment and parenthood in later adulthood (Christie-Mizell and Peralta, 2009;Gotham et al, 1997;Little et al, 2009;Richman et al, 1995) that may have had an impact on the emerging stability in Waves 5 and 6.…”

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Developing a Genetically Informative Measure of Alcohol Consumption Using Past-12-Month Indices

Agrawal

Lynskey²,

Heath

et al. 2011

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: The goal of this study was to develop a factor score derived from measures of past-12-month alcohol consumption. Method: Data were drawn from two studies-the Adult and Family Development Project (N = 734) and the Missouri Adolescent Female Twin Study (N = 3,787). Data on four indices of alcohol consumption (quantity, frequency, frequency of drinking to intoxication, and frequency of fi ve or more drinks/day) were factor analyzed, and differences in factor loadings across gender, race/ethnicity, and study were tested. Correlations between these factors were computed across three assessments and between parent and offspring self-reports. Finally, using the classical twin design, variance in the past-12-month alcohol consumption factor was decomposed into additive genetic (A), shared environmental (C), and nonshared environmental (E) infl uences, and the extent to which these factors overlap with those infl uencing lifetime heaviest drinking were examined. Results: Factor loadings across all groups were high (.69-.95), with some evidence for differing factor loadings across gender, race/ethnicity, and study. The across-wave correlations for the factor ranged from .22 to .62. The within-wave correlation between parental and offspring drinking was .25, suggesting the importance of familial infl uences, which genetic analyses attributed to both additive genetic (31%) and shared environmental (17%) factors. The overlap between genetic infl uences on past-12-month and lifetime heaviest drinking was 0.97. Conclusions: A factor score derived from past-12-month drinking measures is heritable and is largely infl uenced by those genetic factors that infl uence heaviest drinking, at least in young adults. It also shows moderate across-wave stability. This will allow for large-and small-scale genomic studies to use past-12-month drinking measures in data analysis of similar cohorts. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 72, 444-452, 2011)

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“…The opposite has been found for drinking quantity. Women who are advantaged with respect to education, employment status, occupational class and household income consume smaller quantities of alcohol on drinking occasions than women from more disadvantaged backgrounds [11][12][13].Domestic circumstances are also associated with women's patterns of alcohol use. Compared with non-married women, married women report lower alcohol consumption in terms of both frequency and quantity [12].…”

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Social patterning of alcohol consumption among mothers with infants in the UK

Baker¹,

Graham²

2014

J Behav Health

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INTRODUCTIONAlcohol is measured in units and "One unit is 10 ml or 8 g of pure alcohol" [1]. The maximum recommended intake of alcohol for women in the UK is 2-3 units/day; these have remained unchanged since 1995 when recommendations based on weekly quantities (units) were dropped in favour of daily quantities (units). The recommendations are comparable to international standards [2].The majority of adults in the UK report that they drink alcohol and for most adults, alcohol consumption is not considered to be health-damaging [3]. However, research has focused on the minority of the population whose patterns of consumption are associated with a range of health and social problems [4,5]. As a result, more is known about "risky" alcohol use than about the drinking patterns of the majority of the population. In contrast, this paper takes a population perspective that examines the underlying social determinants of alcohol use rather than focusing on a small proportion of "risky" drinking individuals in order to identify potential areas for widespread public health intervention [6].UK surveys provide important information on majority drinking patterns among women. They indicate that alcohol use is more common among white British women; women from minority ethnic groups are more likely to report never drinking or drinking less than once per week. They point, too, to positive gradients in the frequency, and negative gradients in the quantity, of alcohol use among socially advantaged groups [7][8][9][10]. Similarly, studies in other highincome countries report more frequent alcohol use among employed women with higher educational levels and living in higher income households [11,12]. The opposite has been found for drinking quantity. Women who are advantaged with respect to education, employment status, occupational class and household income consume smaller quantities of alcohol on drinking occasions than women from more disadvantaged backgrounds [11][12][13].Domestic circumstances are also associated with women's patterns of alcohol use. Compared with non-married women, married women report lower alcohol consumption in terms of both frequency and quantity [12]. Having children in the household is also associated with alcohol use, with decreased alcohol consumption among parents [4,12]. In addition, there AbstrAct Background: We examined patterns of alcohol use among mothers with infants in the UK focusing on (i) common ("majority") patterns of alcohol use (frequency and quantity) and (ii) associated social factors. Methods: We analyzed data from 15,510 mothers who took part in waves 1 and 2 of the millennium cohort study in 2000/1. Nine months after birth, mothers reported their frequency and quantity of alcohol use, along with information on social circumstances. Logistic regression, carried out in 2011, helped identify the social factors associated with majority patterns of alcohol use. Results: Majority patterns of alcohol use were: Infrequent drinking (never/<1/week), infrequent light drinking (1 unit/day, <1/we...

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The Gender Gap in Alcohol Consumption during Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Gendered Attitudes and Adult Roles

Cited by 66 publications

References 52 publications

Men's and Women's Pathways to Adulthood and Associated Substance Misuse

Men's and Women's Pathways to Adulthood and Associated Substance Misuse

Developing a Genetically Informative Measure of Alcohol Consumption Using Past-12-Month Indices

Social patterning of alcohol consumption among mothers with infants in the UK

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