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A recent study determined that a woman's roles influence various dimensions of her alcohol consumption differently.
"This paper examines the impact of three adult roles - spouse, parent, and worker - on psychological distress and drinking among a national sample of 10,193 women in the United States, using the 1992 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)," wrote investigators published in the journal Substance Use & Misuse .
Y.I. Cho and colleagues, University of Illinois reported, "We found that the spouse and worker roles are negatively associated with the level of psychological distress, and the parent role is positively correlated with it. Controlling for level of psychological distress, those workers generally are more likely to be drinkers, but, among drinkers, they do not consume alcoholic beverages more than non-workers. The family roles do not affect a woman's likelihood of being a drinker."
"However," they noted, "among the drinkers, being a spouse or a parent is negatively related with level of alcohol consumption. Separating three aspects of drinking behavior - whether a woman drinks at all and, if she drinks, her levels of alcohol consumption and problem drinking - our findings suggest that drinking is not a unidimensional construct."
The researchers concluded, "A woman's roles influence various dimensions of her drinking differently."
Cho and colleagues published their study in Substance Use & Misuse (The impact of adult roles on drinking among women in the United States. Subst Use Misuse, 2006;41(1):17-34).
Additional information can be obtained by contacting Y.I. Cho, University of Illinois, Survey Research Laboratory, Chicago, IL 60607, USA; E-mail: youngcho@uic.edu.
The publisher of the journal Substance Use & Misuse can be contacted at: Taylor & Francis Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA.
Keywords: Chicago, Illinois, United States, Alcohol, Alcohol Consumption, Drinking, Adult Roles, Mental Health, Psychological Distress, Women's Drinking, Women's Health. This article was prepared by Biotech Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2006, Biotech Week via NewsRx.com.
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