Raninen, J., Livingston, M., Holmes, J. orcid.org/0000-0001-9283-2151 et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Declining youth drinking : a matter of faith? Drug and Alcohol Review, 41 (4). pp. 721-723. ISSN 0959-5236
Abstract
Youth drinking has declined in many high-income countries for two decades. This development is still largely unexplained. Developing evidence and extending our understanding as to the mechanisms behind these changes is imperative for advising governments and policy makers on how to support and maintain the trends. Given the international scope of the trends, comparative studies have been suggested for improving our understanding of the development. In this commentary, we explore the patterns observed across several waves of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs between 1999 and 2019, and how these match-up with the World Values Survey. We found that the declines in youth drinking are limited to a smaller number of countries and that in Europe these are all found in two groups from the World Values Survey, protestant Europe and English-speaking countries. If the declines in youth drinking are systematic and limited to a smaller number of countries, this challenges some of the hypothesised drivers of this development, but can also help guide future research.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | alcohol; youth; change; European School survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Wellcome Trust 208090/Z/17/Z |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2021 11:02 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2022 15:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/dar.13411 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:181216 |