The Company of Drunk Youths
| Autor: | S. G. Klimova |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Russian & East European Psychology. 32:65-72 |
| ISSN: | 1558-0415 1061-0405 |
| DOI: | 10.2753/rpo1061-0405320665 |
| Popis: | We conducted the third in a series of studies of the alcoholic behavior of youth in 1991 in the Moscow Oblast. We surveyed, by means of a questionnaire, 925 pupils, aged 14 to 18 years, in city schools and technical institutes. The principal purpose of the study was to determine changes in the extent of the attraction of alcohol for youth of the Moscow Oblast compared with 1984 and 1977. As the findings showed, there has been an increase in the social differentiation of drunkenness among the young: those who possessed adequate social resources less often turned to alcohol, but the group of youths who were experiencing general social hardship had started to abuse alcohol more frequently. There were also discernible negative tendencies in the pattern of alcohol consumption: young people had begun to drink more frequently outside the home and to consume stronger beverages. In risk groups, negative emotions began to assume more importance among the reasons for turning to alcohol. For any young person, social ... |
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