“No alcohol, no party”: An explorative study of young Danish moderate drinkers

Frederiksen, Nynne Johanne Sahl; Bakke, Sunniva Leonore; Dalum, Peter

doi:10.1177/1403494812458988

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“…The findings support Frederiksen et al’s [6] assertion that alcohol consumption is associated with pleasure and celebrations by demonstrating that female students are mainly social drinkers who derive pleasure in moderate drinking in parties. While women’s drinking is pleasurable, men view parties as opportunities to acquire social capital and present themselves as “drinking machos” by participating in drinking games.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Not only is alcohol use in such occasions considered to be ‘normal’ [6], female social drinkers suggest that drinking alcohol gives pleasure and make these occasions:When you go to parties, you don’t expect them to give you juice or soft drink. What you need is alcohol and when you take alcohol, it will make you feel the groove, it will make you be in the spirit of the party so you can dance…you just end up being happy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One of the reasons for this is because heavy drinking amongst student populations is thought to be intimately tied to activities (or behaviours) related to the construction of gender [4,5]. This risky behaviour is facilitated by spaces such as party environments [6,7] in which drinking games occur [8,9]. …”

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confidence: 99%

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‘What a man can do, a woman can do better’: gendered alcohol consumption and (de)construction of social identity among young Nigerians

Dumbili

2015

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundThe misuse of alcohol and other drugs among young people, especially students, is a growing global phenomenon. In traditional Nigerian society, different locally-produced alcoholic beverages served complex roles but were mainly consumed among adult males for pleasure. Though adult females in some communities consumed alcohol, the practice of drinking was culturally controlled. In contemporary Nigeria, available quantitative studies reveal changing patterns of alcohol use amongst youth but fail to unravel the social variables that motivate alcohol use among this group.MethodsQualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with 31 (22 males and 9 females, aged 19–23 years) undergraduate students attending a university located in a metropolitan city in Anambra State, south-eastern Nigeria. Data were collected and analysed to generate themes with the aid of Nvivo 10 software.ResultsThere appears to be a resilient socio-cultural belief in which men see alcohol as ‘good for males’ while the females in contrast believe that alcohol does not discriminate according to gender and should be drunk by both males and females. Findings also point to the ways in which male-gendered drinking behaviours, such as heavy or fast drinking are employed by women to develop social capital.ConclusionsThese results do suggest how gendered constructions of alcohol consumption create risks for both men and women, how they negotiate and ameliorate those risks, and how women challenge gender roles through their use of alcohol. Some focus on formulating evidence-based policies and comprehensively evaluated campaigns are needed to disseminate information about the risks and potential consequences of heavy alcohol consumption in order to promote safer alcohol use by young people.

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‘What a man can do, a woman can do better’: gendered alcohol consumption and (de)construction of social identity among young Nigerians

Dumbili

2015

BMC Public Health

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“…Importantly, heavier drinking youths (i.e., youths who reported higher continued volumes) were not likely to drink in party contexts. In support of these results, a small exploratory study with Danish youths reported that drinkers indicated they do not need to drink a great amount of alcohol at parties in order to fit in with others (Frederiksen et al, 2012). These findings suggest that risks associated with drinking at parties may inhere in drinking in these contexts by different drinkers and less in how much they drink in those contexts.…”

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Who Drinks Where: Youth Selection of Drinking Contexts

Lipperman‐Kreda

Mair

Bersamin

et al. 2015

Alcohol Clin Exp Res

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Background Different drinkers may experience specific risks depending on where they consume alcohol. This longitudinal study examined drinking patterns, demographic and psychosocial characteristics associated with youth drinking in different contexts. Methods We used survey data from 665 past-year alcohol using youths (ages 13–16 at Wave 1) in 50 midsized California cities. Measures of drinking behaviors and drinking in seven contexts were obtained at three annual time points. Other characteristics included gender, age, race, parental education, weekly disposable income, general deviance, and past year cigarette smoking. Results Results of multilevel regression analyses show that more frequent past-year alcohol use was associated with an increased likelihood of drinking at parties and at someone else’s home. Greater continued volumes of alcohol (i.e., heavier drinking) was associated with increased likelihood of drinking at parking lots or street corners. Deviance was positively associated with drinking in most contexts, and past year cigarette smoking was positively associated with drinking at beaches or parks and someone else’s home. Age and deviance were positively associated with drinking in a greater number of contexts. The likelihood of youth drinking at parties and someone else’s home increased over time, whereas the likelihood of drinking at parking lots/street corners decreased. Also, deviant youths progress to drinking in their own home, beaches or parks and restaurants/bars/nightclubs more rapidly. Conclusions The contexts in which youths consume alcohol changes over time. These changes vary by individual characteristics. The redistribution of drinking contexts over the early life course may contribute to specific risks associated with different drinking contexts.

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“…Evidence for these types of compound drug memories may be derived from numerous verbal reports of drug users that are able to consciously retrieve rather complex “What-Where-When” information of their drug-instrumentalization episodes (Waldorf et al, 1991; Heath, 2000; Boys et al, 2001; Boys and Marsden, 2003; Boyd et al, 2006; Frederiksen et al, 2012). One may argue that these are conscious self-analyses of one’s own instrumentally conditioned behavior.…”

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Episodic Memories and Their Relevance for Psychoactive Drug Use and Addiction

Müller¹

2013

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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The majority of adult people in western societies regularly consume psychoactive drugs. While this consumption is integrated in everyday life activities and controlled in most consumers, it may escalate and result in drug addiction. Non-addicted drug use requires the systematic establishment of highly organized behaviors, such as drug-seeking and -taking. While a significant role for classical and instrumental learning processes is well established in drug use and abuse, declarative drug memories have largely been neglected in research. Episodic memories are an important part of the declarative memories. Here a role of episodic drug memories in the establishment of non-addicted drug use and its transition to addiction is suggested. In relation to psychoactive drug consumption, episodic drug memories are formed when a person prepares for consumption, when the drug is consumed and, most important, when acute effects, withdrawal, craving, and relapse are experienced. Episodic drug memories are one-trial memories with emotional components that can be much stronger than “normal” episodic memories. Their establishment coincides with drug-induced neuronal activation and plasticity. These memories may be highly extinction resistant and influence psychoactive drug consumption, in particular during initial establishment and at the transition to “drug instrumentalization.” In that, understanding how addictive drugs interact with episodic memory circuits in the brain may provide crucial information for how drug use and addiction are established.

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“No alcohol, no party”: An explorative study of young Danish moderate drinkers

Cited by 34 publications

References 7 publications

‘What a man can do, a woman can do better’: gendered alcohol consumption and (de)construction of social identity among young Nigerians

‘What a man can do, a woman can do better’: gendered alcohol consumption and (de)construction of social identity among young Nigerians

Who Drinks Where: Youth Selection of Drinking Contexts

Episodic Memories and Their Relevance for Psychoactive Drug Use and Addiction

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