Search for dissertations about: "Drunkenness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word Drunkenness.

2. 1. Teenage Kicks – The Differential Development of Drug Use, Drunkenness, and Criminal Behaviour in Early to Mid-Adolescence

   Author : Russell Turner; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Drug use; Drunkenness; Alcohol intoxication; Criminal behaviour; Delinquency; Adolescence; Adolescent development; Risk behaviour; Risk factor; Prevention; Critical realism; realist method; Person-oriented method;

   Abstract : This thesis studies the development of drug use, drunkenness, and criminal behaviour in early to mid-adolescence. Its main aims are to improve knowledge about how and why these three behaviours develop and to contribute towards the development of theory that can have applications in prevention policy and practice. The thesis comprises four studies. READ MORE

4. 2. Evaluation of a Swedish parental prevention program : youth drunkenness, alcohol-specific parenting and gender differences

   Author : Anna Strandberg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Background: Research suggests that alcohol-specific parenting and parental prevention programs can be effective in the efforts to prevent underage drinking. The Örebro prevention program (ÖPP) is based on principles of alcohol-specific parenting and encourages parents to maintain restrictive attitudes towards underage drinking, with the aim to reduce youth drinking and drunkenness. READ MORE

5. 3. Preventing underage alcohol drinking through working with parents

   Author : Nikolaus Koutakis; Håkan Stattin; Anna Sarkadi; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Adolescents; adolescent drinking; alcohol; delinquency; evaluation; intention to treat; intervention; longitudinal; parental attitudes; prevention; ÖPP; Effekt; Psykologi; Psychology;

   Abstract : An evaluation is reported of an alcohol prevention program that targets parents in order to decrease drinking among 13-16 year-olds. The evaluation was performed in a quasi-experimental study with a matched control group and annual assessments, directed at youths and their parents independently, in a longitudinal intention-to-treat design. READ MORE

6. 4. Outcome evaluation of school-based alcohol prevention : a European multi-centric trial (EU-Dap study)

   Author : Maria Paola Caria; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Background: Curricula aiming at preventing substance use are widespread in European schools, without formal evaluation of their effectiveness. Promising programmes based on the Comprehensive Social Influence (CSI) model have never been evaluated in Europe. READ MORE

7. 5. Drunk driving : a study of psychosocial, and health factors, focusing on young and middle-aged men in a metropolitan area

   Author : Gunilla Karlsson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Alcohol use; criminality; disability pension; drinking and driving; drunk driving; epidemiology; morbidity; mortality; social class;

   Abstract : Drunk driving is a common and serious alcohol-related problem in Sweden and many other countries. In Sweden 9,433 persons, of whom 90 % were men, were convicted of drunk driving in 1997. Surveys indicate that many more have driven under the influence of alcohol. READ MORE