Background
The association of
social capital and alcohol consumption is one of the most robust empirical
findings in health economics of the past decade. However, the direction of the
relationship between the two is heavily dependent on which dimension of social
capital is studied and which alcohol measure is used. In this paper, we examine
the effect of social interactions and generalised trust on drinking in the
general Danish population survey.
Methods
Participants (n = 2569) were recruited as part of
a larger study. The double-hurdle model for the volume of alcohol consumption
and the multivariate logistic model for heavy episodic drinking were estimated.
Results
We found evidence that
social networking with male friends, membership in voluntary organisations, and
generalised trust were significantly associated with the mean volume of alcohol
consumption and heavy drinking. We also observed that social support at the
community level had a buffering effect against heavy episodic drinking.
Conclusions
The findings support
previous findings in which social interactions and generalised trust were found
to predict individuals’ volume of drinking and heavy episodic drinking.
However, the results varied across the indicators.
Full article at: http://goo.gl/t9xECa
By: Abdu Kedir Seid
Centre for
Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Artillerivej 90, 2. 2300
København S, Denmark
Abdu Kedir Seid, Phone: +4531847979, Email: kd.ua.ysp@frc.ka.
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