Drug and Alcohol Review
Volume 36, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 769-778

Alcohol consumption among first- and second-generation immigrant and native adolescents in 23 countries: Testing the importance of origin and receiving country alcohol prevalence rates (Article)

Barsties L.S.* , Walsh S.D. , Huijts T. , Bendtsen P. , Molcho M. , Buijs T. , Vieno A. , Elgar F.J. , Stevens G.W.J.M.
  • a Utrecht Centre for Child and Adolescent Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • b Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
  • c Department of Sociology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
  • d National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • e School of Languages, Literature and Culture, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
  • f Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  • g Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
  • h Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • i Utrecht Centre for Child and Adolescent Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Abstract

Introduction and Aims: This internationally comparative study examines differences in alcohol consumption between first- and second-generation immigrant and native adolescents. We also investigate to what extent origin and receiving country alcohol per capita consumption (APCC) rates and proportions of heavy episodic drinkers (HED) are associated with immigrant adolescents’ alcohol consumption. Design and Methods: We used cross-sectional survey data from the 2013/2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. Applying multilevel regression analyses, we investigated the lifetime frequency of alcohol use and drunkenness in 69 842 13- to 15-year-olds in 23 receiving countries, with immigrants from over 130 origin countries (82% natives, 6% first-generation immigrants and 12% second-generation immigrants). Results: The lifetime frequency of alcohol use was higher among natives than among first- and second-generation immigrants, while no differences were found between the latter two. Lifetime drunkenness was more frequent among first-generation immigrants than among natives and second-generation immigrants. Higher origin country APCC and HED were associated with more frequent lifetime alcohol use and drunkenness among immigrant adolescents. Cross-level interactions revealed that for lifetime frequency of alcohol use, the origin country HED effects were stronger for first- than for second-generation immigrant adolescents. Further, especially for first-generation immigrants, a higher receiving country HED was related to lower lifetime frequencies of alcohol use and drunkenness. Discussion and Conclusions: Our results suggest differences in lifetime frequencies of alcohol use and drunkenness between natives and first- and second-generation immigrant adolescents. Origin country APCC and HED seem to affect immigrant adolescents’ alcohol consumption differently than receiving country APCC and HED. © 2017 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs

Author Keywords

Immigrant alcohol consumption Adolescent origin and receiving country alcohol prevalence rate

Index Keywords

Alcohol Drinking drinking behavior human Internationality international cooperation ethnology Cross-Sectional Studies Humans cross-sectional study migrant psychology Adolescent male Emigrants and Immigrants female prevalence Adolescent Behavior Alcoholic Intoxication alcohol intoxication
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85032958858&doi=10.1111%2fdar.12624&partnerID=40&md5=88b21176ec343ac6ab5907a8d6f60b2e
DOI: 10.1111/dar.12624
ISSN: 09595236
Cited by: 5
Original Language: English