TY - JOUR
T1 - Vocational education paths, youth activities, and underage drinking in Russia
T2 - How early does the trouble start?
AU - Lushin, Viktor
AU - Jaccard, James
AU - Ivaniushina, Valeria
AU - Alexandrov, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this study was provided by the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (2012–2014). No HSE officials, except the authors, had any role in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of the data, writing the manuscript, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2017/7
Y1 - 2017/7
N2 - Working-class educational paths tend to be associated with elevated drinking. Little research has examined whether disproportionate alcohol use among vocationally oriented youth begins before or after the start of their vocational education. The present study analyzes a large sample of Russian middle-school students (N = 1269; mean age = 14.9), comparing the patterns of drinking among middle-schoolers oriented towards vocational educational, and their peers who do not plan a vocational education path. Results suggest that the orientation towards vocational education is associated with disproportionately high alcohol involvement among Russian middle-school students, even before they enter vocational schools. We studied if such difference could be partially explained by how youth orient towards extracurricular activities: discretionary peer time in risky contexts, reading for pleasure, working for pay, and religious activities. Reading demonstrated the strongest (negative) association with alcohol use, while religious activity unexpectedly revealed a positive (though weak) association with drinking. Research and policy implications are discussed.
AB - Working-class educational paths tend to be associated with elevated drinking. Little research has examined whether disproportionate alcohol use among vocationally oriented youth begins before or after the start of their vocational education. The present study analyzes a large sample of Russian middle-school students (N = 1269; mean age = 14.9), comparing the patterns of drinking among middle-schoolers oriented towards vocational educational, and their peers who do not plan a vocational education path. Results suggest that the orientation towards vocational education is associated with disproportionately high alcohol involvement among Russian middle-school students, even before they enter vocational schools. We studied if such difference could be partially explained by how youth orient towards extracurricular activities: discretionary peer time in risky contexts, reading for pleasure, working for pay, and religious activities. Reading demonstrated the strongest (negative) association with alcohol use, while religious activity unexpectedly revealed a positive (though weak) association with drinking. Research and policy implications are discussed.
KW - Prevention
KW - Underage drinking
KW - Vocational training
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U2 - 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.035
DO - 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.035
M3 - Article
C2 - 28618283
AN - SCOPUS:85020688177
SN - 0955-3959
VL - 45
SP - 48
EP - 55
JO - International Journal of Drug Policy
JF - International Journal of Drug Policy
ER -