Question

What are the differences in the type of drinking behaviors between both males and females as they relate to increased alcohol consumption?

Answer 1

From the findings of a multinational project analyzing patterns between alcohol consumption and gender, the following differences between males and females have been found (Wilsnack et al., 2010):

• Drinking per se and high-volume drinking were consistently more prevalent among men than among women
• Lifetime abstention from alcohol was consistently more prevalent among women.
• Among respondents who had ever been drinkers, women in all age groups were consistently more likely to have stopped drinking than men were.
• Among drinkers, the prevalence of high-frequency drinking was consistently greatest in the oldest age group, particularly among men.

References:

Wilsnack, R. W., Wilsnack, S. C., Kristjanson, A. F., Vogeltanz-Holm, N. D., & Gmel, G. (2009). GENDER AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION: PATTERNS FROM THE MULTINATIONAL GENACIS PROJECT. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 104(9), 1487–1500. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02696.x