1 / 9

can.se

Average consumption (liter 100% alcohol) among boys and girls in grade 9 (app. age 15). 1989-2010. www.can.se. Becoming adult in an alcohol culture: A mixed method study of prevention discourses, alcohol consumption and ascribed meanings of alcohol and intoxication among adolescents.

prescott-peck
Download Presentation

can.se

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Average consumption (liter 100% alcohol) among boys and girls in grade 9 (app. age 15). 1989-2010 www.can.se

  2. Becoming adult in an alcohol culture: A mixed method study of prevention discourses, alcohol consumption and ascribed meanings of alcohol and intoxication among adolescents Presentation at the Nordic Alcohol and Drug Researchers’ Assembly, the MischMasch network, Reykjavik, Iceland, on the 23-25th of August, 2010 Josefin Bernhardson & Johan Svensson Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD) Contact: josefin.bernhardson@sorad.su.se or johan.svensson@sorad.su.se

  3. Aim • Investigate teenage drinking in relation to common assumptions and messages about teenage drinking, e.g., in prevention programs directed towards adolescents • Combine survey data with data from focus group interviews • Focus on the concept “peer pressure”

  4. Quantitative data Child- level of living survey conducted in 2000, n= 1,304, age 10-18 (resp. rate 85.3%). In this study age 14-18 n=703 Alcohol measurement: one question on alcohol, frequency of consumption during the last 6 months. Data and methods 1

  5. Focus groups interviews with girls age 15, nine groups (n=56) - Thematic analysis - Self reflexivity and memory work Data and methods 2Qualitative

  6. Peer pressure?

  7. Preliminary results/analysis Quantitative material Table 1. Sociability and proportion of girls and boys reporting regular consumption %.

  8. Preliminary results/analysis Qualitative material Themes from the interviews: -Teenage drinking vs. adult drinking: - Having fun: Friends, sex and intimate relations - The “other” sex: Nice girls and stupid boys. Peer pressure?

  9. Discussions • Do you thing peer pressure is a useful concept to analyze? • In what ways can our mixed method approach / combination of methods be productive and in what ways can it be problematic? Regarding e.g., epistemological differences, writings traditions, focuses, skills, etc? • Are there practical aspects to consider that might hinder work with a mixed method procedure? More time consuming, more data to handle and analyse, more knowledge/methodological skills required from the researcher?

More Related