Making Sense of Alcohol Consumption Among Russian Young Adults in the Context of Post-2009 Policy Initiatives

Радаев, Вадим

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-28607-1_16

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“…These different changes from 2011 onwards might be at least partially explained by the external factors that may present barriers in the diffusion process [7,26]. These factors include, first, the decline in the real disposable income of the population due to economic shocks since 2012, and second, the imposition of restrictive policy measures since 2011, including the acceleration of excise tax rates on alcoholic beverages, which resulted in a corresponding increase in retail prices [4,5]. However, despite differences in the scale of the declines, external factors did not prevent collective changes in alcohol consumption.…”

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“…This trend was confirmed by survey data showing a decline of both prevalence of alcohol use and alcohol volumes since 2007. The decline was backed by a new restrictive alcohol policy most active in Russia since 2011 that reduced the affordability and availability of alcohol, including substantive increase in alcohol excise taxes and retail prices, restrictions on trading hours and points of trade and a ban on mass media advertising [4,5]. However, we need to know whether this decline is consistent across lighter and heavier drinkers.…”

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Decline in alcohol consumption in Russia: Collectivity or polarisation?

Радаев

Roshchina

2021

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Introduction Sales and survey data have shown a decline in alcohol consumption in Russia since 2007. This study examines whether this decline is consistent across lighter and heavier drinkers in line with the theory of the collectivity of drinking cultures. Methods Data were collected through annual nationally representative surveys conducted between 2006 and 2018 of 33 109 individuals aged 18–85 years. We estimated generalised linear regression with Gamma distribution and used log alcohol volume consumed during the previous 30 days as the dependent variable for five percentile groups: heavy drinkers (95th), near heavy drinkers (90th), moderate drinkers (80th), light drinkers (60th for men and 70th for women) and non‐drinkers. Dummy variables for years, percentile groups and their interactions were used as independent variables. The controls were age, education, income, body weight, marital status, household demographic structure, residence, ethnicity and regional climate. Results Reductions in alcohol consumption were observed in all percentiles, but the scale of change was proportionally smaller among heavier drinkers than among lighter drinkers. However, consumption fell by a smaller amount among lighter drinkers than among heavier drinkers. Results of the regression analysis fit with the descriptive statistics. Interactions between the time period and the percentile groups were significant after 2010. Trends were similar for both sexes. Discussion and Conclusions Downward trends across percentiles were in the same direction but the magnitude of change varied. Obtained evidence fails to support a polarisation and points towards soft collectivity hypothesis in the reduction in drinking in Russia.

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Decline in alcohol consumption in Russia: Collectivity or polarisation?

Радаев

Roshchina

2021

Drug and Alcohol Review

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“…Period effects acquire importance when an entire population is influenced by specific historic events or milestones. For example, in Russia, researchers identify such milestones as the First World War, the thaw period after Nikita Khrushchev’s famous secret speech at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, the period of stagnation under Leonid Brezhnev, perestroika and liberal reforms under Michail Gorbachev, and the period of stabilization after the resignation of Boris Yeltsin (Radaev, 2019).…”

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Values of Ethnic Russians and the Indigenous Population in North Caucasus Republics of the Russian Federation: An Exploratory Three-Generation Comparison

Boehnke

Galyapina

Lebedeva

et al. 2021

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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This paper examines intergenerational differences and similarities in value preferences among three generations of the Russian ethnic minorities in two North Caucasus republics of the Russian Federation. It also compares them with value preferences of three generations of Russians in the Central Federal District around Moscow and those of indigenous North Caucasus residents. The sample included 479 grandparent–parent–adolescent triads. Data were obtained using Schwartz’s Revised Portrait Values Questionnaire. Scores for Schwartz’s four higher-order value types (Openness to Change, Self-Enhancement, Conservation, and Self-Transcendence) were calculated. Analyses of variance showed that intergenerational differences were strongest for Openness values. For the three other values, preferences of grandparents and parents differed less than did preferences of parents and their offspring. Repeated measures analyses of covariance, controlling for differences in age, gender, and educational attainment in the five cultural groups, showed that intergenerational differences were moderated by cultural context. Intergenerational differences were consistently widest in the Central Federal District. Generally, value preferences of contemporary adolescents, their parents, and their grandparents are drifting apart in the most “modern” part of the Russian Federation, whereas in the periphery, the generations are staying more closely together, largely regardless of people’s ethnic belonging.

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