TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - The collectivity of changes in alcohol consumption revisited
JO  - Addiction
A1  - Rossow, Ingeborg
A1  - Makela, Pia
A1  - Kerr, William
SP  - 1447
EP  - 1455
VL  - 109
IS  - 9
N2  - AIM: Within-country temporal changes in alcohol consumption in the USA, Finland, and Norway were examined to assess 1) whether a change in mean alcohol consumption is accompanied by a change in the prevalence of heavy drinkers, 2) whether this mean change reflects a collective displacement in the whole distribution of consumption, and 3) whether collective displacement is found for both an upward and a downward shift in mean consumption. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: We applied repeated cross-sectional survey data on distribution measures for estimated annual alcohol consumption from national population sample surveys covering 30 to 40 years periods in two countries with increasing trends in mean consumption (Finland and Norway) and one country with decreasing trends (the USA). RESULTS: There was a strong positive association (P <0.001) between changes in mean consumption and changes in the prevalence of heavy drinkers in all three countries. Moreover, a change in mean consumption was accompanied by a consumption change in the same direction in all consumer categories in all three countries, i.e. a collective displacement. The regression coefficients were around 1. CONCLUSION: Drinkers at all levels of consumption appear to move in concert, both up and down the consumption scale in Finland, Norway, and the USA, as predicted by Skog's theory of the collectivity of drinking cultures.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0965-2140
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.12520
ID  - ref1
ER  -