Alcohol Consumption Among Russian Youth: How Parental Preferences Determine Children’s Behavior
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alcohol consumption, types of alcohol consumption, youth alcohol consumption, parental alcohol consumption, RLMS—HSEAbstract
Existing research highlights the role of parents in the alcohol socialization of youth. However, little is known about how parents influence children's preferences in choosing specific types of alcoholic beverages. This study explores the relationship between the alcohol preferences of youth and their parents using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey — Higher School of Economics (RLMS—HSE) from 2012 to 2019. The sample includes 3,095 respondents aged 14 to 22 who consumed alcohol in the 30 days preceding the survey.
The author uses cluster analysis to identify five groups of young people based on the composition of alcoholic beverages consumed, namely: «only beer », «cocktails and other beverages», «wine and beer», «vodka, moonshine, and other beverages», and «cognac, whiskey, liqueur, and other beverages». To assess the relationship between the types of alcohol consumed by youth and their parents’ choices, the author estimates multinomial regression model, with typology of alcohol consumption among youth as the dependent variable and the types of alcoholic beverages consumed by at least one parent as key independent variables. The results show that parental influence extends not only to the fact of alcohol consumption, which has been identified in previous studies, but also to the choice of specific alcoholic beverages. For example, wine consumption by one of the parents increases the likelihood that their adult child will be committed to a type of consumption that includes wine. For instance, parental consumption of wine increases the likelihood that a young person will belong to a group that includes wine. A similar pattern is observed for stronger beverages such as vodka, moonshine, and cognac.
Acknowledgments. The study was supported by the HSE University Fundamental Research Program, project «Russians’ Daily Social Practices under Exogenous Shocks». The author expresses special gratitude to Yana Roshchina and the HSE Laboratory of Economic and Social Research staff for their assistance in working on the article.
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