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Status Inconsistency and Drinking Patterns among Working Men and Women
Author(s) -
Parker Douglas A.,
Parker Elizabeth S.,
Harford Thomas C.,
Brody Jacob A.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1978.tb04708.x
Subject(s) - social status , consumption (sociology) , psychology , alcohol consumption , dimension (graph theory) , social psychology , demography , socioeconomic status , sociology , alcohol , population , mathematics , social science , biochemistry , chemistry , pure mathematics
Previous research suggests that status inconsistents constitute a social category that is vulnerable to embarrassments and disappointments, since individuals who are of high status on one dimension and low status on another tend to respond to themselves in terms of the higher status, while other people tend to respond to them in terms of the lower one. This article extends this research to patterns of alcohol consumption and finds that status and status inconsistency are significantly associated with frequency of consumption and quantity consumed per occasion among certain groups of drinkers.