MARITAL STATUS, SMOKING AND BINGE DRINKING IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

• Authors: Hamplová Dana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper explores cross-national differences in the link between marital status, smoking and binge drinking. Using the International Social Survey Data (ISSP Health and Health Care) from 2011, it tests whether the gap between married and single individuals depends on the prevalence of the vice in the society. This hypothesis was partly corroborated for binge drinking in both male and female samples though the link between marriage and alcohol consumption is reversed in the high prevalence context. In case of smoking, the idea of the decreasing role of marriage in countries where tobacco use is widespread was confirmed only among men. The analysis also showed that cohabitation was not as strongly linked to health practices as marriage.

Keywords

EN

MARRIAGE; SMOKING; ALCOHOL; HEALTH BEHAVIOUR

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 647 – 671

Contributors

author

Hamplová Dana

• Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2018.50.6.24