In sum, gender is of primary importance for understanding the relations between economic strain, social relations, and binge drinking in contemporary Russia. Men with economic problems drink heavily; women with economic problems drink less. Married men drink as much as their non-married friends, married women substantially less. Women's drinking is concentrated in the context of friends, while men's occurs everywhere.
Gender specifies the relationships, implying that the determinants of heavy drinking in Russia must be interpreted gender-wise. Thus, the opposite associations seen between economic strain and binge drinking among men and women might partly explain the extremely large gender gap in Russian mortality statistics.
Finally, the development of drinking patterns as indicated by this study is very worrying as both women and young people of both sexes now seem to be drinking more than they did previously—which bodes ill for the future in terms of alcohol-related problems in Russia.
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Date: 2007-11-28 03:50 am (UTC)Gender specifies the relationships, implying that the determinants of heavy drinking in Russia must be interpreted gender-wise. Thus, the opposite associations seen between economic strain and binge drinking among men and women might partly explain the extremely large gender gap in Russian mortality statistics.
Finally, the development of drinking patterns as indicated by this study is very worrying as both women and young people of both sexes now seem to be drinking more than they did previously—which bodes ill for the future in terms of alcohol-related problems in Russia.