How has COVID-19, lockdown and social distancing changed alcohol drinking patterns? A cross-cultural perspective between britons and spaniards

Autor: Dominique Valentin, María-Pilar Sáenz-Navajas, Heber Rodrigues, Ernesto Franco-Luesma, Erick Saldaña, Vonimihaingo Ramaroson Rakotosamimanana, Carlos Gómez-Corona
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Plumpton College, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation [Dijon] (CSGA), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Universidad de La Rioja (UR), Laboratoire d'Analyse Sensorielle -DRT - FOFIFA Ambatobe, XOC Estudio, Universidad Nacional de Moquegua (UNAM), Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino, The Spanish National Research Agency, the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities and the EuropeanSocial Fund for her postdoctoral fellowship: Ramon y Cajal Program (RYC2019-027995-I/AEI/10.13039/501100011033)., Elsevier Ltd., Oxford (England)
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Food Quality and Preference
Food Quality and Preference, Elsevier, 2022, 95, pp.104344. ⟨10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104344⟩
ISSN: 0950-3293
Popis: During the early months of 2020, the world experienced a novel, violent, and relentless pandemic era. By the end of the year more than seventy-seven million cases of COVID-19 had been reported around the globe. Due to it being a highly contagious disease, the recommended measures adopted by most nations to prevent infection include social distancing and quarantine. How did these measures affect people's relationship with alcohol consumption in cultures where alcohol plays an important social role? A questionnaire-based study, designed to follow the drinking behaviour of people before and during lockdown was applied to two different cultural groups impacted by the pandemic during the strict phase of lockdown. These are the British and Spanish populations (179 participants from each country were interviewed). Considering the frequency of consumption of the alcoholic beverages evaluated (wine, beer, cider, whisky and spirits), the results showed that a significant lockdown*country interaction was observed. Overall, Spanish participants consumed alcoholic beverages less frequently during lockdown than before, while British participants reported no change in their consumption habits. Spaniards’ decrease in alcohol consumption is related to the absence of a social contexts while Britons seems to have adapted their consumption to the modified context. Results suggest that, alcohol consumption is a central core of the British culture, while for the Spanish, socialization is more a cultural characteristic than the alcohol itself.
MPSN acknowledges the Spanish National Research Agency, the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities and the European Social Fund for her postdoctoral fellowship: Ramón y Cajal Program (RYC2019-027995-I/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). The authors warmly thank Mr. Jeremy Kerswell for his help on participants’ recruitment, Miss Dona Frost and Mister Philip Hedger for the English proof reading as well as all the anonymous participants in this study.
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