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Are baby boomer women unique?
— The moderating effect of birth cohort on age in substance use patterns during midlife | | Author(s) | Stephanie Elias Sarabia, James I Martin |
| Journal title | Journal of Women and Aging, vol 28, no 2, [March-April] 2016 |
| Publisher | Routledge, [March-April] 2016 |
| Pages | pp 150-160 (IN: Journal of Women and Aging, vol 28, nos 1-3, 2016) |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline,com |
| Keywords | Women ; Middle aged ; Alcoholism ; Drug taking ; Drugs ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study examined the relationships of age to use of alcohol, marijuana and illicit drugs, and misuse of prescription drugs among midlife American women, and whether these relationships are modified by birth cohort. Structural Equation Modelling was used to analyse National Survey on Drug Use and Health data (for 1979 and 1994), which included 2,035 baby boomer and silent generation cohort women (ages 30 to 55). Midlife women across cohorts reduced alcohol and marijuana use, but not illicit and prescription drug misuse, as they aged. A modifying effect of birth cohort was not supported, but findings did support differential ageing effects across substances. Implications are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160805253 A |
| Classmark | SH: SE: ETA: ETD: LLD: 3F: 7T |
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