Is life satisfaction hump-shaped with alcohol consumption? Evidence from Russian panel data

Massin, Sophie; Kopp, Pierre

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.01.005

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“…The main specifications suggested that there is no relationship between drinking level/frequency and life satisfaction, but a wellbeing penalty for those with alcohol problems. This is similar to the only previous such study, which uses Russian data (Massin & Kopp, 2014).…”

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confidence: 89%

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Can alcohol make you happy? A subjective wellbeing approach

Geiger

MacKerron

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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There are surprisingly few discussions of the link between wellbeing and alcohol, and few empirical studies to underpin them. Policymakers have therefore typically considered negative wellbeing impacts while ignoring positive ones, used gross overestimates of positive impacts via a naïve 'consumer surplus' approach, or ignored wellbeing completely. We examine an alternative subjective wellbeing method for investigating alcohol and wellbeing, using fixed effects analyses of the associations between drinking and wellbeing within two different types of data.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Only two such studies have been conducted, both using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (Graham et al, 2004;Massin & Kopp, 2014); Massin & Kopp's more robust study finds no relationship between alcohol consumption and wellbeing among women, but that heavier drinking men have lower life satisfaction.…”

Section: Empirical Studies Of Alcohol and Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can alcohol make you happy? A subjective wellbeing approach

Geiger

MacKerron

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Recently, Massin and Kopp (2014) found a hump-shaped relationship between life satisfaction and alcohol use. Nevertheless, when they introduced a large number of control variables into the model, the hump-shaped curve increasingly flattened.…”

Section: Alcohol and Life Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Satisfaction and Alcohol Consumption Among Young Adults at Social Gatherings

2017

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Although low life satisfaction is related to alcohol abuse among young adults, there is no clear evidence of a specific relationship between wellbeing indexes and alcohol consumption. Several studies have reported different nonlinear relationships. The role of other variables may explain the inconsistent relationships between life satisfaction and alcohol consumption. Concerning individual factors, people's expectations regarding drinking alcohol (i.e., drinking motives) are considered the most proximal antecedents of alcohol use and may mediate the relationship between life satisfaction and drinking alcohol. Regarding relational factors, social relations are related to both wellbeing and alcohol consumption. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationships among life satisfaction, drinking motives, and alcohol consumption in a sample of young adults. The data were collected by means of a self-report questionnaire from a sample of 536 young adults (median age: 22 years). We tested a structural equation model, assuming the hypothesized relationships, simultaneously on males and females to investigate gender differences. The results showed the influence of social relations on life satisfaction, which in turn influenced participants' expectations regarding drinking alcohol. Drinking motives were antecedents of alcohol use. Among women, low satisfaction increased coping expectation, which, in turn, increased alcohol consumption. The most dangerous expectation about drinking was that alcohol may enhance a person. Prevention campaigns should aim to deconstruct this idea.

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“…4 For the Russian Federation, cross-sectional analyses using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) also find life satisfaction to be U-shaped in age, with a minimum in well-being between 45 and 55 (Graham and Pettianto, 2002;Ravallion and Lokshin, 2002;Graham et al, 2004). However, by exploiting the panel aspect of the RLMS (data from 1994 to 2010) and accounting for individual fixed effects, Massin and Kopp (2014) estimate a nonlinear specification of age that places the lowest levels of well-being at age 30-39. They also find that the level of well-being for the oldest age group (70 and above) is statistically similar to that for people aged 20 years and younger.…”

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Subjective Well-being Across the Lifespan in Europe and Central Asia

Bauer

Levin²,

Boudet³

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Population Ageing

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Using data from the Integrated Values Survey (IVS), the Life in Transition Survey (LiTS), and the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), we analyse the relation between age and subjective well-being in the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region and compare it to that in Western Europe. Although our results generally confirm previous studies' findings of a U-shaped relation between subjective well-being and age for most of the lifecycle, we also find that well-being in ECA declines again after the 70s, giving rise to an Sshape relation across the entire lifespan. When controlling for socio-demographic characteristics, this pattern generally remains robust for most of our cross-sectional and panel analyses. Hence, despite significant heterogeneity in the pattern of well-being across the lifespan within the ECA region, we do not observe high levels of crosscountry or crosscohort variation.

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Is life satisfaction hump-shaped with alcohol consumption? Evidence from Russian panel data

Cited by 37 publications

References 28 publications

Can alcohol make you happy? A subjective wellbeing approach

Can alcohol make you happy? A subjective wellbeing approach

Life Satisfaction and Alcohol Consumption Among Young Adults at Social Gatherings

Subjective Well-being Across the Lifespan in Europe and Central Asia

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