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Article de Périodique
Adolescents' alcohol use is decreasing in Europe but not in all of the countries. Why? (2024)
Auteur(s) :
ARNOLD, P. ;
HORVATH, A. ;
ELEKES, Z.
Année
2024
Page(s) :
154-161
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Alcool / Alcohol
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus géographique
EUROPE
Thésaurus mots-clés
ALCOOL
;
ADOLESCENT
;
ESPAD
;
ETUDE TRANSVERSALE
;
EVOLUTION
;
REDUCTION DE CONSOMMATION
;
INDICATEUR
;
COMPARAISON
;
PREVALENCE
Résumé :
Background and Objective: Recent research has suggested a decline in alcohol use among students, however, only a few papers offer to explain why adolescents are drinking less. According to ESPAD, adolescents' alcohol use is decreasing in Europe, but only Hungary shows an increasing trend. The paper aims to give explanation for the opposite trends.
Methods: The analysis is based on a cross-national dataset, ESPAD in 2003 and 2019, involving 25 countries (N = 157,790). The background variables cover family, school, leisure time, risk behaviors. Chi-square tests, logit explanatory model, KHB method were applied.
Results: In Hungary and in countries with decline the strongest relation with current alcohol use was found for internet use, going out, parental control, daily smoking, and alcohol intake.
Conclusions: In countries with decline and in Hungary, stronger parental control, going out less often, smoking less may contribute to a declining trend while a more widespread internet use may contribute to an increasing trend. Hungary shows the same pattern as the countries with decline, so other factors such as a lack of alcohol policy, permissive attitudes, media representation, health awareness may be behind the different trends. Future research should be directed toward providing further explanations for the opposite trends.
Methods: The analysis is based on a cross-national dataset, ESPAD in 2003 and 2019, involving 25 countries (N = 157,790). The background variables cover family, school, leisure time, risk behaviors. Chi-square tests, logit explanatory model, KHB method were applied.
Results: In Hungary and in countries with decline the strongest relation with current alcohol use was found for internet use, going out, parental control, daily smoking, and alcohol intake.
Conclusions: In countries with decline and in Hungary, stronger parental control, going out less often, smoking less may contribute to a declining trend while a more widespread internet use may contribute to an increasing trend. Hungary shows the same pattern as the countries with decline, so other factors such as a lack of alcohol policy, permissive attitudes, media representation, health awareness may be behind the different trends. Future research should be directed toward providing further explanations for the opposite trends.
Affiliation :
Social Epidemiology Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences-Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary