Titre :
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Alcohol use and social interactions among adolescents in Sweden : Do peer effects exist within and/or between the majority population and immigrants ? (2010)
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Auteurs :
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SVENSSON (Mikael) : SWE. Orebro University. Orebro.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 70, n° 11, 2010)
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Pagination :
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1858-1864
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Alcoolisme
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Consommation
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Boisson alcoolisée
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Relation sociale
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Adolescent
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Suède
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Relation entre pairs
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Population
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Migrant
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Homme
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Europe
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 8IR0xJlF. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Are adolescents who attend schools with a high level of alcohol use and binge drinking more likely to use alcohol and binge drink themselves ? This paper analyzes peer effects in adolescent drinking based on a survey of 13,070 adolescents conducted in Sweden in 2005. The empirical analysis uses a multi-level logistic model to account for non-observable heterogeneity between the schools and the results show that attending a school with a high level of alcohol use and frequent binge drinking is a strong predictor of alcohol use and binge drinking for the individual. Hardly any significant interaction effects are detected, implying that peer influence is similar across different adolescent sub-groups. Looking at adolescents with different ethnic backgrounds, it is found that the drinking-pattern of the Swedish majority population has a significant effect on drinking by Swedish individuals and immigrants from Nordic and European countries, but no effect on drinking by immigrants from non-European countries.
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