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Article

Normalization of Non-Drinking? Health, School Situation and Social Relations among Swedish Ninth Graders That Drink and Do Not Drink Alcohol

by
Jonas Raninen
1,2,3,4,
Peter Larm
5,
Johan Svensson
1,2,5,
Michael Livingston
2,4,6,
Lars Sjödin
2 and
Patrik Karlsson
7,*
1
Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN), 116 64 Stockholm, Sweden
2
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
3
Unit of Social Work, School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
4
Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
5
Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
6
National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
7
Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(21), 11201; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111201
Submission received: 6 October 2021 / Revised: 21 October 2021 / Accepted: 22 October 2021 / Published: 25 October 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends in Adolescents' and Young Adults' Substance Use since 2000)
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Abstract

Alcohol consumption is a major contributor to the disease burden among adolescents. The adolescent alcohol abstainer is still often depicted as problematic in the research literature and in prominent theoretical frameworks. However, over the past two decades, there has been a marked trend of declining youth drinking in Sweden. The declining trend has led to a shift in the majority behaviour of youth, from drinking to non-drinking. It is plausible that this trend has also shifted the position of non-drinkers. This paper examines the position of non-drinkers in a nationally representative sample of Swedish adolescents. A survey was carried out in 2017 in 500 randomly selected schools. A total of 5549 respondents (15–16-year-olds) agreed to participate and answered the questionnaire. A minority (42.8%) had consumed alcohol during their lifetime. The results show that non-drinkers had better health and school performance when compared to drinkers. The results also showed that there were no differences in the social position between non-drinkers and drinkers. These findings are new and indicate a changed position of non-drinkers among Swedish adolescents. With non-drinking being the majority behaviour among Swedish adolescents this seems to have shifted the position of non-drinkers. There is a need for research on the long-term importance of not drinking during adolescence.
Keywords: alcohol; adolescent; survey; Sweden; non-drinking alcohol; adolescent; survey; Sweden; non-drinking

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Raninen, J.; Larm, P.; Svensson, J.; Livingston, M.; Sjödin, L.; Karlsson, P. Normalization of Non-Drinking? Health, School Situation and Social Relations among Swedish Ninth Graders That Drink and Do Not Drink Alcohol. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 11201. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111201

AMA Style

Raninen J, Larm P, Svensson J, Livingston M, Sjödin L, Karlsson P. Normalization of Non-Drinking? Health, School Situation and Social Relations among Swedish Ninth Graders That Drink and Do Not Drink Alcohol. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(21):11201. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111201

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Raninen, Jonas, Peter Larm, Johan Svensson, Michael Livingston, Lars Sjödin, and Patrik Karlsson. 2021. "Normalization of Non-Drinking? Health, School Situation and Social Relations among Swedish Ninth Graders That Drink and Do Not Drink Alcohol" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 21: 11201. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111201

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Raninen, J., Larm, P., Svensson, J., Livingston, M., Sjödin, L., & Karlsson, P. (2021). Normalization of Non-Drinking? Health, School Situation and Social Relations among Swedish Ninth Graders That Drink and Do Not Drink Alcohol. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), 11201. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111201

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