799
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

A qualitative analysis investigating drinking practices and meanings among a sample of Australian working mothers

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Received 05 Nov 2023, Accepted 31 Jan 2024, Published online: 19 Feb 2024

References

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2022. Labour Force Status of Families. Australian Bureau of Statistics. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-status-families/jun-2022
  • Adams RS, Ledingham E, Keyes KM. 2022. Have we overlooked the influence of “wine-mom” culture on alcohol consumption among mothers? Addict Behav. 124:107119. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.10711.
  • Bhaskar R. 2008. A realist theory of science. New York: Routledge.
  • Blair-Loy M, Hochschild A, Pugh AJ, Williams JC, Hartmann H. 2015. Stability and transformation in gender, work, and family: insights from the second shift for the next quarter century. Community, Work & Family. 18(4):435–454. doi:10.1080/13668803.2015.1080664.
  • Bosma LM, Giesbrecht N, Laslett A. 2022. Exploiting motherhood: do mummy drinking sites offer real support or are they mainly alcohol marketing? Drug Alcohol Rev. 41(1):24–26. doi:10.1111/dar.13284.
  • Braun V, Clarke V. 2013. Successful qualitative research: a practical guide for beginners. London: Sage.
  • Braun V, Clarke V. 2022. Conceptual and design thinking for thematic analysis. Qualitative Psychology. 9(1):3–26. doi:10.1037/qup0000196.
  • Byrne D. 2022. A worked example of Braun and Clarke’s approach to reflexive thematic analysis. Qual Quant. 56(3):1391–1412. doi:10.1007/s11135-021-01182-y.
  • Caluzzi G, Wright C, Kuntsche E, Stewart SH, Kuntsche S. 2022. Double shifts, double trouble: alcohol as a problematic panacea for working mothers. Int J Drug Policy. 104:103699. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103699.
  • Collins C. 2019. Making motherhood work: how women manage careers and caregiving. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Drabble L, Trocki KF. 2014. Alcohol in the life narratives of women: commonalities and differences by sexual orientation. Addict Res Theory. 22(3):186–194. doi:10.3109/16066359.2013.806651.
  • Emslie C, Hunt K, Lyons A. 2012. Older and wiser? Men’s and women’s accounts of drinking in early mid‐life. Sociol Health Illn. 34(4):481–496. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01424.x.
  • Emslie C, Hunt K, Lyons A. 2015. Transformation and time-out: the role of alcohol in identity construction among Scottish women in early midlife. Int J Drug Policy. 26(5):437–445. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.12.006.
  • Foley KM, Warin M, Meyer SB, Miller ER, Ward PR. 2021. Alcohol and flourishing for Australian women in midlife: a qualitative study of negotiating (Un)happiness. Sociology. 55(4):751–767. doi:10.1177/0038038520973580.
  • Harding KD, Whittingham L, McGannon KR. 2021. #sendwine: an analysis of motherhood, alcohol use and #winemom culture on Instagram. Subst Abuse. 15:11782218211015195. doi:10.1177/11782218211015195.
  • Hochschild AR. 1989. The second shift: working parents and the revolution at home. New York: Viking.
  • Jackson K, Finch T, Kaner E, McLaughlin J. 2018. Understanding alcohol as an element of 'care practices’ in adult White British women’s everyday personal relationships: a qualitative study. BMC Women’s Health. 18(1):137. doi:10.1186/s12905-018-0629-6.
  • Jackson K, Finch T, Kaner E, McLaughlin J. 2023. Exploring the significance of relationality, care and governmentality in families, for understanding women’s classed alcohol drinking practices. Soc Theory Health. 21:320–336 . doi:10.1057/s41285-022-00183-7.
  • Kersey K, Lyons AC, Hutton F. 2022. Alcohol and drinking within the lives of midlife women: a meta-study systematic review. Int J Drug Policy. 99:103453. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103453.
  • Kersey K, Hutton F, Lyons AC. 2023. Women, alcohol consumption and health promotion: the value of a critical realist approach. Health Promot Int. 38(1):daac177. doi:10.1093/heapro/daac177.
  • Keyes KM, Jager J, Mal‐Sarkar T, Patrick ME, Rutherford C, Hasin D. 2019. Is there a recent epidemic of women’s drinking? A critical review of national studies. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 43(7):1344–1359. doi:10.1111/acer.14082.
  • Kuntsche S, Knibbe RA, Gmel G. 2012. Parents’ alcohol use: gender differences in the impact of household and family chores. Eur J Public Health. 22(6):894–899. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckr145.
  • Leggat G, Livingston M, Kuntsche S, Callinan S. 2021. Changes in alcohol consumption during pregnancy and over the transition towards parenthood. Drug Alcohol Depend. 225:108745. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108745.
  • Lyons AC, Emslie C, Hunt K. 2014. Staying ‘in the zone’ but not passing the ‘point of no return’: embodiment, gender and drinking in mid‐life. Sociol Health Illn. 36(2):264–277. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12103.
  • Lyons AC, Young J, Blake D, Evans P, Stephens C. 2023. Home drinking practices among middle-class adults in midlife during the COVID-19 pandemic: material ubiquity, automatic routines and embodied states. Drug Alcohol Rev. 42(5):1028–1040. doi:10.1111/dar.13610.
  • Lunnay B, Foley K, Meyer SB, Miller ER, Warin M, Wilson C, Olver IN, Batchelor S, Thomas JA, Ward PR. 2022. ‘I have a healthy relationship with alcohol’: Australian midlife women, alcohol consumption and social class. Health Promot Int. 37(4):daac097. doi:10.1093/heapro/daac097.
  • Lunnay B, Seymour J, Foley K, Musolino C, Ward PR. 2023. Through the wine glass: how biographical midlife transitions and women’s affective interpretations interact with alcohol consumption. Int J Drug Policy. 117:104046. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104046.
  • Maxwell JA, Mittapalli K. 2010. Realism as a stance for mixed methods research. In A. Tashakkori & C. Teddlie (Eds.), SAGE handbook of mixed methods in social & behavioural research. 2nd ed, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. p. 145–168. doi:10.4135/9781506335193.
  • Miller J, Carbone-Lopez K. 2015. Beyond 'Doing Gender’: incorporating race, class, place, and life transitions into feminist drug research. Subst Use Misuse. 50(6):693–707. doi:10.3109/10826084.2015.978646.
  • Miller M, Mojica‐Perez Y, Livingston M, Kuntsche E, Wright CJC, Kuntsche S. 2022. The who and what of women’s drinking: examining risky drinking and associated socio‐demographic factors among women aged 40–65 years in Australia. Drug Alcohol Rev. 41(4):724–731. doi:10.1111/dar.13428.
  • Newman H, Nelson KA. 2021. Mother needs a bigger “helper:” A critique of “wine mom” discourse as conformity to hegemonic intensive motherhood. Sociology Compass. 15(4):e12868. doi:10.1111/soc4.12868.
  • O'Brien KM, Ganginis Del Pino HV, Yoo S-K, Cinamon RG, Han Y-J. 2014. Work, family, support, and depression: Employed mothers in Israel, Korea, and the United States. J Couns Psychol. 61(3):461–472. doi:10.1037/a0036339.
  • Paulin M, Lachance-Grzela M, McGee S. 2017. Bringing work home or bringing family to work: personal and relational consequences for working parents. J Fam Econ Iss. 38(4):463–476. doi:10.1007/s10834-017-9524-9.
  • Ward PR, Foley K, Meyer SB, Wilson C, Warin M, Miller ER, Olver I, Thomas JA, Batchelor S, Lunnay B. 2022a. How does social class shape women’s alcohol stockpiling during COVID-19?: a qualitative study in South Australia during the 2020 lockdown. SSM Qual Res Health. 2:100080. doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100080.
  • Ward PR, Foley K, Meyer SB, Wilson C, Warin M, Batchelor S, Olver IN, Thomas JA, Miller E, Lunnay B. 2022b. Place of alcohol in the ‘wellness toolkits’ of midlife women in different social classes: a qualitative study in South Australia. Sociol Health Illn. 44(2):488–507. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13440.
  • Wright CJC, Miller M, Kuntsche E, Kuntsche S. 2022. What makes up wine o‘clock? Understanding social practices involved in alcohol use among women aged 40–65 years in Australia. Int J Drug Policy. 101:103560. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103560.
  • Wolf JP, Chávez R. 2015. Just make sure you can get up and parent the next day:” Understanding the contexts, risks, and rewards of alcohol consumption for parents. Fam Soc. 96(3):219–228. doi:10.1606/1044-3894.2015.96.28.