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Girls and alcohol – Consumption patterns and lifestyle choices Structure:

Girls and alcohol – Consumption patterns and lifestyle choices Structure: Risk factors and heavy drinking in the city of Stockholm (Julia Sandahl) The meaning ascribed to alcohol (Filip Roumeliotis). The Stockholms survey.

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Girls and alcohol – Consumption patterns and lifestyle choices Structure:

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  1. Girls and alcohol – Consumption patterns and lifestyle choices Structure: Risk factors and heavy drinking in the city of Stockholm (Julia Sandahl) The meaning ascribed to alcohol (Filip Roumeliotis)

  2. The Stockholms survey • Measures deviant behaviour, druguse and risk & protective factors among adolescents in Stockholm. • Paper survey in schools year 9 and year 2 in ”gymnasium” (upper secondary school). • Done every other year in the spring. • All public schools are obliged to participate, private schools participate voluntariliy

  3. Risk factors and heavy drinking in the city of Stockholm The main aim: Seek to identify what risk factors that contribute to increase the risk of heavy drinking See whether any risk factors seem more important than others Examine whether there are risk factors linked to particular geographic areas of the city, to demographic and to other social factors. Method: The material was analyzed using logistic regression SIDAN 3

  4. Subdivision of the City of Stockholm after a social index Area 1 Cityparts with the lowest level on the social indexArea 2 Cityparts around the average level on the social indexArea 3 Cityparts with the highest level on the social index 2014-08-21 SIDAN 4

  5. Result:Proportion of heavyconsumers in the city of Stockholm as a hole and in the three different types of areas (%)

  6. The most meaningful characteristics/riskfactors associated with heavy consumtion among girls in ninth grade in Stockholm (1:2) SCHOOL AND PEER FACTORS • Friends who both drink and smoke (35,2***14,6*** 9,7*** & 11,2*** 4,3*** 2,1***) • Poor grades (1,4* 1,7** 1,2) • Weak ties to school (3,2*** 1,6** 0,88) FAMILY FACTORS • Lack of supervision by parents (7,4*** 5,4*** 1,6**) • Parents who offer alcohol at home (2,6’*** 2,1*** 1,2) • Weak attachment to parents (3,0*** 1,7*** 1,3**) • Someone else in the family who is a heavy consumer (1,5*** 1,2** 1,0)

  7. The most meaningful characteristics/riskfactors associated with heavy consumtion among girls in ninth grade in Stockholm (2:2) INDIVIDUAL FACTORS • Early onset in alcohol (6,1*** 3,2***) • Uses tobacco (13,2*** 7,7*** 4,3***) • Antisocial behavior (18,5*** 4,8*** 2,6***) • Exitementseeking traits (12,8*** 3,6*** 2,1***) • Been subjected to sexual abuse (3,6*** 1,8** 1,5) COMMUNITY FACTORS (meassured on an aggregated level by the subdivision of citydisticts) • Lives in an affluent area, often in an inner city district (Area 2- 2,2*** Area 3- 2,3***)

  8. ConclusionsWhat´s the next step? • Preventive efforts should be targeted to parents and peers • Availability, context, norms and attitudes is relevant • Deeper understanding of what can be said to be deviant • Should dig deeper for a better understanding of the significance of alcohol for young girls (qualitative study SoRAD)

  9. The meaning ascribed to alcohol A study on the meaning of alcohol for girls in grade 9 in Stockholm Filip Roumeliotis SoRAD, Stockholm University

  10. Purpose of the study • To study the meaning the girls attributed to alcohol and alcohol consumption through focus group interviews • To assess what obstacles/possibilities were connected to alcohol consumption • To see what similarities/differences exist between groups of girls

  11. Positive representations • Alcohol as social lubricant • Alcohol as an excuse • Alcohol as part of youth (even mom did it) • Alcohol consumption as development and the positioning of oneself as a young adult

  12. Negative representations • Alcohol as sexual risk • Alcohol as loss of control • Alcohol and rumours • Alcohol and addiction

  13. What do we make of this? • Alcohol consumption is embedded in various social and cultural practices • Cultural views on sexuality, youth, sociability etc. are connected to views on alcohol consumption • Young persons´ alcohol consumption is embedded in an alcohol culture situated in the society as a whole

  14. The question of directed or general prevention Essential vs context-bound views on drinking and prevention practices

  15. Contact Julia.sandahl@stockholm.se tfn: +46 7612 25 413 filip.roumeliotis@sorad.su.se tfn: +46 8 674 73 70 SIDAN 15 Preventionscentrum Stockholm

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