A meta-analysis of change in marital and employment status as predictors of alcohol consumption on a typical occasion

Meta‐analysis is used to combine results of primary data from 12 longitudinal studies to examine the consistency of results with respect to the role of changes on the individual level in marital status and employment status on changes in consumption of alcohol per typical occasion. The analyses cont...

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Published in:British Journal of Addiction 1991-10, Vol.86 (10), p.1269-1281
Main Authors: TEMPLE, MARK T., FILLMORE, KAYE MIDDLETON, HARTKA, ELIZABETH, JOHNSTONE, BRYAN, LEINO, E. VICTOR, MOTOYOSHF, MICHELLE
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
Alcohol Drinking - psychology
Alcohol Use
Alcoholism - epidemiology
Alcoholism - psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Consumption
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Cross-Sectional Studies
Crosscultural Analysis
Employment
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Incidence
Life Change Events
Life Stage Transitions
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Marital Status
Marriage
Medical sciences
Meta-Analysis as Topic
Metasociology
Methodology. Experimentation
Occupational Status
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Techniques and methods
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Summary:Meta‐analysis is used to combine results of primary data from 12 longitudinal studies to examine the consistency of results with respect to the role of changes on the individual level in marital status and employment status on changes in consumption of alcohol per typical occasion. The analyses control for the effects of Time 1 consumption per occasion and education. Not getting married and becoming unmarried are associated with increased consumption at follow‐up and both variables are positively related to increased consumption among older men, but only becoming unmarried was related to increased consumption among older women. Becoming married is homogeneously and negatively associated with consumption at follow‐up for younger and older persons of both sexes. Chronic unemployment is negatively related to consumption at follow‐up among older mates and younger females. Becoming unemployed between measurements is homogeneously and negatively related to consumption among older mates and females, but positively related among younger mates. Becoming employed is homogeneously and positively related to later consumption among all groups except young females.
ISSN:0952-0481
0965-2140
2056-5178
DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1991.tb01703.x