A meta-analysis of life course variation in drinking

Meta‐analysis combines remits from multiple longitudinal studies to describe life course variation by age and sex for quantity of drinking per typical occasion (20 studies) and frequency of drinking during one month (27 studies). There is cross‐study heterogeneity for the Time 1 means of the drinkin...

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Published in:British Journal of Addiction 1991-10, Vol.86 (10), p.1221-1268
Main Authors: FILLMORE, KAYE MIDDLETON, HARTKA, ELIZABETH, JOHNSTONE, BRYAN M., LEINO, E. VICTOR, MOTOYOSHI, MICHELLE, TEMPLE, MARK T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Alcohol
Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
Alcohol Use
Alcoholism - epidemiology
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Cross-Sectional Studies
Crosscultural Analysis
Female
Humans
Incidence
Life Change Events
Life Cycle
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Medical sciences
Meta-Analysis as Topic
Metasociology
Methodology. Experimentation
Middle Aged
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Techniques and methods
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Summary:Meta‐analysis combines remits from multiple longitudinal studies to describe life course variation by age and sex for quantity of drinking per typical occasion (20 studies) and frequency of drinking during one month (27 studies). There is cross‐study heterogeneity for the Time 1 means of the drinking variables blocking for age and sex. Age distributions for the Time I means are similar by gender within nations; in the aggregate, males exceed females in the magnitude of drinking. Dramatic shifts in the standarized mean difference (M2 ‐ M1) occur among the young; greater homogeneity and moderate change (declines) occur later in life. Implicated in improving cross‐study homogeneity for M 2– M1 among the young are interval between measurements, nation, Time 1 per capita consumption (PCC), difference in PCC and the Time 1 mean. Lower unstandardized regression coefficients are found for quantity among youth, but are not consistently homogeneous within nations; the association for frequency becomes increasingly stable with increasing age. Nation and interval are implicated in improving homogeneity. Decline in quantity occurs among the old. M2‐M1, produces homogeneously higher regressions for groups of the young who increase quantity v. those who do not. Linkage of the group‐level and individual‐level findings is discussed.
ISSN:0952-0481
0965-2140
2056-5178
DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1991.tb01702.x