title: Alcohol consumption and personal resources. A general hypothesis and some implications.
abstract: A general hypothesis is formulated in which alcohol consumption is largely determined by the resources available for drinking, the activities competing for those resources, and the costs associated with drinking in the context of a particular social status. Implications in terms of drinking patterns of occupational subgroups, longitudinal changes in alcohol consumption, and vulnerability to the development of pathological drinking are suggested.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008393:Marriage; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009790:Occupations; D012424:Rural Population; D012919:Social Behavior; D012923:Social Class; D012931:Social Environment; D013997:Time Factors; D014505:Urban Population