Psychological features of alcohol consumption among student youth in the European North of Russia

Autor: Alexander B. Mulik, Yulia A. Shatyr, Irina V. Ulesikova, Andrey G. Soloviev, Nikita O. Nazarov, Evgeniy V. Cherniy
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Ekologiya cheloveka (Human Ecology). 29:323-331
ISSN: 1728-0869
DOI: 10.17816/humeco78852
Popis: AIM: to identify the psychological characteristics of alcohol consumption among students of the European North of Russia. METHODS: The study involved 137 students of state universities in the city of Arkhangelsk (37 men and 100 women aged 17-25), pre-selected for a number of reasons: Russians, born in the city of Arkhangelsk or the Arkhangelsk region, brought up in a complete, socially prosperous family, without financial and domestic problems without chronic somatic and neurological diseases. Identification and analysis of the experience of alcohol consumption at the prenosological level was carried out by retrospective self-assessment of the subjects. The psychological status of the respondents was determined by assessing the Freiburg multifactor personality questionnaire FPI, character accentuations, suggestibility, frustration, irritability and resentment, adventurousness, behavioral, social, professional, economic, political activity and social destructiveness. For statistical data processing, the WilcoxonMannWhitney method and Fishers F-test were used. RESULTS: High levels of adventurousness (Me=10.5 units), extraversion (Me=8 units), behavioral activity (Me=7 units), and low shyness (Me=2.5 units) were found in the group of males who used alcoholic drinks. High levels of emotivity (Me=18 units), adventurousness (Me=9.5 units), and social activity (Me=7 units) were found in the group of women who consumed alcoholic drinks. CONCLUSIONS: For the first time, an analysis was made of the manifestation of indicators of the psychological status of students (representatives of the Russian population of the European North of Russia) consumers at the prenosological level and non-consumers of alcohol. The psychological markers of alcohol consumption in boys and girls permanently residing in the conditions of the Northern territories of the Russian Federation were determined.
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