Alcohol consumption patterns among adolescents are related to family structure and exposure to drunkenness within the family

• Verfasst von: Rüütel, Erik [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Brunner, Romuald [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Kaess, Michael [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Alcohol consumption patterns among adolescents are related to family structure and exposure to drunkenness within the family
• Titelzusatz: results from the SEYLE project
• Verf.angabe: Erik Rüütel, Merike Sisask, Airi Värnik, Peeter Värnik, Vladimir Carli, Camilla Wasserman, Christina W. Hoven, Marco Sarchiapone, Alan Apter, Judit Balazs, Julio Bobes, Romuald Brunner, Paul Corcoran, Doina Cosman, Christian Haring, Miriam Iosue, Michael Kaess, Jean-Pierre Kahn, Vita Poštuvan, Pilar A. Sáiz and Danuta Wasserman
• E-Jahr: 2014
• Jahr: 8 December 2014
• Umfang: 16 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 05.11.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: International journal of environmental research and public health
• Ort Quelle: Basel : MDPI AG, 2004
• Jahr Quelle: 2014
• Band/Heft Quelle: 11(2014), 12, Seite 12700-12715
• ISSN Quelle: 1660-4601
• DOI: doi:10.3390/ijerph111212700
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: adolescent
• Sach-SW: alcohol
• Sach-SW: family member drunkenness
• Sach-SW: family structure
• Sach-SW: risk-behaviour
• Sach-SW: SEYLE
• K10plus-PPN: 1737992841

Abstract

There is expedient evidence showing that differences in adolescent alcohol consumption and other risk-behaviour depend on both family structure and family member drunkenness exposure. Data were obtained among adolescents (N = 12,115, mean age 14.9 ± 0.89) in Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Romania, Slovenia and Spain within the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme funded project, ‘Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE)’. The current study reveals how adolescents’ alcohol consumption patterns are related to their family structure and having seen their family member drunk. The results revealed statistically significant differences in adolescent alcohol consumption depending on whether the adolescent lives in a family with both birth parents, in a single-parent family or in a family with one birth parent and one step-parent. The study also revealed that the abstaining from alcohol percentage among adolescents was greater in families with both birth parents compared to other family types. The study also showed that the more often adolescents see their family member drunk the more they drink themselves. There is no difference in adolescent drinking patterns whether they see their family member drunk once a month or once a week. This study gives an insight on which subgroups of adolescents are at heightened risk of alcohol abuse and that decrease of family member drunkenness may have positive effects on the drinking habits of their children.