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GENDER AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF ALCOHOL USE PATTERNS: AN ANALYSIS OF ADULT CHILDREN IN MOSCOW

, Ph.D.
Pages 65-87 | Published online: 28 Feb 2002
 

Abstract

Based on a 1996 sample of adult children and their parents in Moscow, this study investigates the degree to which alcohol use patterns are transmitted from parents to adult children and examines the roles of gender, family status, and family interaction dynamics for transmission. Findings suggest that parents’ drinking and family status/interaction patterns indeed influence adult children's alcohol consumption. Frequency and volume of alcohol use is higher among children whose mothers typically drink about 3 or more drinks daily or who drink on a weekly basis. Fathers’ frequency and volume of alcohol use positively influences only sons’ drinking. Mothers’ drinking, however, may undermine fathers’ positive effect on sons. Fathers’ verbal and physical abuse significantly affects daughters’ consumption.

RESUMEN

Basándome en una muestra de 1996 de hijos adultos y sus padres en Moscú, investigo hasta qué punto se transmite el consumo elevado de alcohol de padres a hijos adultos en Rusia y examino el papel que juegan el género, y el estatus y las dinámicas de interacción familiares en la transmisión de dicho consumo. Los resultados de mi análisis sugieren que tanto el consumo elevado de alcohol por parte de los padres como el estatus y las dinámicas de interacción familiares influyen en el consumo elevado de alcohol de los hijos. Un elevado consumo de alcohol por parte de la madre influye positivamente en el consumo de los hijos (tanto varones como mujeres), mientras que el del padre sólo influye positivamente en el de los varones. El consumo de la madre, sin embargo, puede hacer disminuir el grado en el que el consumo de alcohol del padre afecta al consumo de los hijos varones. Por último, los abusos verbales y físicos por parte del padre afectan significativamente al consumo de alcohol de sus hijas.

RÉSUMÉ

C’est abstrait est basé sur un échantillon des enfants adultes et leur parents a Moscow. C’est une investigation pour savoir dans quel degré les habitudes de consommation d’alcool pesant sont passés des parents aux enfants en Russie. On examine los roles de genre, la situation de la famille et la dinamique d’interaction de la famille. Les resultats semblent de montrer que les parents qu’ont l’addiction à l’alcool et la situation famille/interaction dinamique influencent la consommation extreme d’alcool dans les enfants adultes. Les mères que boivent beaucoup influencent positivement la consommation de leur enfants; les pères que consomment beaucoup influencent seulement les enfants homes. La consommation de la part des meres toute fois, peut exercer l’effet positif sur les enfants homes. Le mauvais traitment des peres influencent significativement la consommation des enfants femmes.

Notes

1Historically, violence against women has been a taboo topic in Russia, resulting in a paucity of empirical research on spousal abuse Citation[41]. However, findings from a 1997 conference titled “Violence in the Family, Violence in Society” suggest that about 20–30% of murders in Russia occur within the family, and 14,000 Russian women are killed by their husbands each year Citation[45]. Moreover, in their study of marriages in Moscow, Vannoy et al. Citation[41] find that about 25% of wives report some form of physical abuse by their husbands.

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Karen Van Gundy

Karen Van Gundy, Ph.D., is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire. Recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior (with Scott Schieman, Ph.D. and John Taylor, Ph.D.) and Social Psychology Quarterly (with Scott Schieman, Ph.D.).

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