First drink: What does it mean? The alcohol socialization process in different drinking cultures

Rolando, Sara; Beccaria, Franca; Tigerstedt, Christoffer; Törrönen, Jukka

doi:10.3109/09687637.2012.658105

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“…Many of the studies focus on young people (e.g. Beccaria & Prina, 2010;Bye & Rossow, 2010;Hellman & Rolando, 2013;Loughran, 2010;Petrilli et al, 2014;Rolando, Beccaria, Tigerstedt, & Törrönen, 2012), reflecting a conceptualisation of youth drinking as in itself a problem, and ignoring the range of other frames in which the material might be analysed. In addition, with the exception of a few studies (e.g.…”

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Defining “drinking culture”: A critical review of its meaning and connotation in social research on alcohol problems

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Mugavin

et al. 2016

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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There has been growing academic interest in ''drinking cultures'' as targets of investigation and intervention, driven often by policy discourse about ''changing the drinking culture''. In this article, we conduct a critical review of the alcohol research literature to examine how the concept of drinking culture has been understood and employed, particularly in work that views alcohol through a problem lens. Much of the alcohol research discussion on drinking culture has focussed on national drinking cultures in which the cultural entity of concern is the nation or society as a whole (macro-level). In this respect, there has been a comparative tradition concerned with categorising drinking cultures into typologies (e.g. ''wet'' and ''dry'' cultures). Although overtly focused on patterns of drinking and problems at the macro-level, this tradition also points to a multifaceted understanding of drinking cultures. Even though norms about drinking are not uniform within and across countries there has been relatively less focus in the alcohol research literature on cultural entities below the level of the culture as a whole (micro-level). We conclude by offering a working definition, which underscores the multidimensional and interactive nature of the drinking culture concept.

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“…Increases in women's drinking were noted. Rolando et al (2012) Qualitative. Focus on how young people are socialised into alcohol.…”

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Defining “drinking culture”: A critical review of its meaning and connotation in social research on alcohol problems

Savic

Room

Mugavin

et al. 2016

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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“…Although raising the minimum legal drinking age from age 18 to 21 has led to reductions in drinking and alcohol-related traffic fatalities (DeJong & Blanchette, 2014;Subbaraman & Kerr, 2013), evidence for the success of other programs targeted at delaying age at initiation is less compelling (Spoth et al, 2008). That there is no precise, shared understanding of what is meant by drinking onset makes direct comparisons across research studies challenging (Rolando et al, 2012).…”

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The Prospective Association Between Sipping Alcohol by the Sixth Grade and Later Substance Use

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Colby

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J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Although there is a clear association between early use of alcohol and short-and long-term adverse outcomes, it is unclear whether consumption of minor amounts of alcohol (less than a full drink) at a young age is prognostic of risk behaviors in later adolescence. Method: Data were taken from 561 students enrolled in an ongoing prospective web-based study on alcohol initiation and progression (55% female; 25% White non-Hispanic). Based on a combination of monthly and semiannual surveys, we coded whether participants sipped alcohol before sixth grade and examined associations between early sipping and alcohol consumption by fall of ninth grade, as well as other indices of problem behavior. Participants also reported on the context of the first sipping event. Results: The prevalence of sipping alcohol by fall of sixth grade was 29.5%. Most participants indicated that their first sip took place at their own home, and the primary source of alcohol was an adult, usually a parent. Youth who sipped alcohol by sixth grade had significantly greater odds of consuming a full drink, getting drunk, and drinking heavily by ninth grade than nonsippers. These associations held even when we controlled for temperamental, behavioral, and environmental factors that contribute to proneness for problem behavior, which suggests that sipping is not simply a marker of underlying risk. Conclusions: Our findings that early sipping is associated with elevated odds of risky behaviors at high school entry dispute the idea of sipping as a protective factor. Offering even just a sip of alcohol may undermine messages about the unacceptability of alcohol consumption for youth. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 76, 212-221, 2015)

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“…The main difference from the UK study by Valentine et al (2014) was that we found fewer positive associations with alcohol. Drinking cultures can be conservative (Rolando et al, 2012) and our participants' unwillingness to endorse alcohol in primarily positive terms probably reflects a long-lasting and deeply ambiguous Norwegian drinking culture.…”

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“…Young adolescents' perceptions of alcohol may reflect such stable and consistent "deep cultural structures" (Samovar et al, 2012), that endure through generations (Rolando et al, 2012).…”

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“Shoes on your hands”: perceptions of alcohol among young adolescents in Norway

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Skjælaaen

2017

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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First drink: What does it mean? The alcohol socialization process in different drinking cultures

Cited by 49 publications

References 23 publications

Defining “drinking culture”: A critical review of its meaning and connotation in social research on alcohol problems

Defining “drinking culture”: A critical review of its meaning and connotation in social research on alcohol problems

The Prospective Association Between Sipping Alcohol by the Sixth Grade and Later Substance Use

“Shoes on your hands”: perceptions of alcohol among young adolescents in Norway

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