Since drinking habits are created in social environments the workplace has an important role in Alcohol prevention. This study has investigated employees (N=216) in a Swedish municipality work organisation with the purpose to describe the Alcohol culture in workplace and how it influences on the workers attitudes towards Alcohol. The theoretical baseline for the study has been Ames and Janes framework that explains the relation between workplace culture and drinking habits among workers. The study showed significant relations between restrictive attitude towards Alcohol and not drinking with co-workers (POR: 2.5) and feeling low pressure in the work situation (POR: 2.2). Therefore it should be of interest for employers to adopt a cultural perspective and a primary prevention strategy in their Alcohol policies that focuses on social relations and the workplace conditions.

Alcohol consumption and student life have been connected through many years. Many people establish their drinking habits during their years as a student and drinking habits among students are therefore an extremely important topic. The aim of this study was to examine the drinking habits of students at Växjö University. The study included 98 respondents who answered a survey concerning sex, age, living status, social relations, social desirability and drinking habits. The result indicated that male students consumed more Alcohol than female students.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the motives underlying the consumption of Alcohol among college students and if the motives differ between genders. The study is based on the following questions: What are the motives underlying Alcohol consumption among students? Do these motives differ between men and women? Is there any connection between the motives for Alcohol consumption and consumption? The study is a quantitative, empirical comparison study and the data presented is mainly descriptive. The study group consists of students from a university in central Sweden. After an exclusion of five students a total of 81 students participated in the survey, of which 55 were female and 26 were male.

The Swedish Alcohol policy has by tradition a restrictive composition, with high taxes and the Swedish Alcohol Retailing Monopoly as important elements. The Moderate Party has been powerful critics of the Alcohol policy and has advocated a reformation. However, today the Moderate Party seems to have changed the attitude towards the Alcohol policy and it even supports the Swedish initiative to create cooperation about Alcohol matters at the EU level.This thesis examines why the Moderate Party has changed its attitude towards the restrictive Alcohol policy. Three aspects have been considered: the rise of a European public policy, strategic choice, and the influence of the political environment. The paper discusses the problem from a strategic perspective, which means that the political change is viewed as a result of strategic considerations.The party has indeed been affected by all of the three aspects, although to different extent.

AbstractTitle: How does Europeanization effect Swedish Alcohol policy? .Titel: Hur påverkar Europeiseringen svensk alkoholpolitik?Minor Thesis in Political Science, January 2008Author : Markus GustafssonTutor : Lennart BergfeldtVäxjö UniversityThis essay will deal with the influence which Europeanization has on domestic politics. The case I have chosen is Swedish Alcohol policy. Thus, the purpose is to explore whether observed changes in Swedish Alcohol policy in the years 1993-2005 can be explained by Swedens´s membership in the European Union. To reach this purpose the following questions need to be answered:? What is europeanization?? How has Swedish Alcohol policy changed from 1993 to 2005?? Is it possible to connect the changes in Swedish Alcohol policy to a process of Europeanizationprocess?The method in this essay has been a qulitative study of litterature.

During the last few years the Alcohol consumption has increased and is now the highest in 100 years, one usually count that 10 % of the grown up population abuse Alcohol and/or drugs and most of them are hidden abusers with families and work. This leads to great costs for the companies. But the much greater cost for the companies are the much larger group of risk abusers. According to the Swedish law the employer has a responsibility for the work milieu and also for the rehabilitate for the employed and drug/Alcohol abuse applies to this.I have done qualitative interviews on four companies in the south of Sweden with one representa-tive for the management and one representative for the union. I have investigated their attitudes to Alcohol and drugs and how they describe the Alcohol culture at the company.The companies define Alcohol problems when they are established and obvious and when it is dis-covered they put in resources and because of this they don't work preventive so much.

AimThe aim of this study was to try to understand youngsters and their attitude to Alcohol in the countryside and in a large city. The questions at issue have been: How do youngsters from the countryside, who drink, and do not drink Alcohol, view the school- family- and friendsituation? How do youngsters from a large city, who drink, and do not drink Alcohol, view the school- family- and friendsituation? Can we understand youths? attitude to Alcohol on basis of the factors: School, family and friends? Are there any differences and similarities?MethodInterviews have been implemented with four youngsters in a large city and in the countryside. To gain as much as possible from the interviews a questionnaire was distributed to two classes in year nine in the countryside, and one class in the large city. The interview material was analysed on the basis from earlier research and two theoretical models.ResultsAccording to the youngsters that drink, both in the countryside and the large city, the most common view in school was that high demands are put on the youngsters and that they should study more then they do.

The objective of this study was investigating social worker?s perspective of how Alcohol consumption can affect, and what elements in the social environment that may be of significance for, Alcohol consumption and development of identity. The questions at issue were: Do social workers experience any positive effects from Alcohol consumption in 16-17 year-old girls with problematic Alcohol consumption and what influence do the effects have on self esteem, self image and development of identity? What do social workers experience are the negative effects from Alcohol consumption on self esteem, self image and development of identity? How important do social workers find the social environment and how do they believe the social environment affect the Alcohol consumption and development of identity? This was investigated with a qualitative approach from a social worker?s perspective, hence social workers were interviewed. The study?s theoretical basis was Symbolic Interactionism and Erikson?s theory of Psychosocial Development.

The argument whether women should drink Alcohol during pregnancy, has been debated for centuries. Women's drinking behaviour throughout the ages is not a static phenomenon but has changed in compliance with the customs of the time. The purpose of this study was not to evaluate if Alcohol damages the unborn child, but rather to explore how women, who have just given birth and hence have become mothers, looked at Alcohol in relation to pregnancy and motherhood. To accomplish this we have used a qualitative method with a semi-structured interview guide. What has turned out to be central to our conclusions is the fact that though, in today's society, there is access to newly produced science reports concerning Alcohol in connection to injuries to the foetus, it is our belief that the demands and expectations directed on the mother are dominant in this matter..

The purpose of this study was to examine how young people who have chosen not to drink Alcohol experience themselves and their surroundings. The aim was to find out what role temperance plays in their perceived identity. I also wanted to find out how they experienced the views of them, temperance and the temperance movement in their surroundings. Finally, I was interested in the question about Alcohol, witch significance they believed it had for them and their surroundings. As theoretical ground, I used Howars S.

It is important to identify the consequences of Alcohol consumption among university students since over-consumption can lead to health problems and poorer academic performance. The following personality factors, neuroticism, conscientiousness and extraversion, have in previous studies shown to be related to Alcohol consumption  and shown to be associated with the university students' Alcohol use and living arrangements. This study examines the following question; Is there a link between university students' Alcohol consumption, and;1) the personality factors neuroticism, conscientiousness, extraversion?2) their living situation?3) personality factors and living situation together?Participating in this survey was one hundred university students with a mean age of 23.4 years (SD = 2.6). To examine participants' personality, Alcohol consumption and living arrangements, the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (Costa, McCrae, 2003) questionnaire was used and the questionnaire also contained self-constructed questions about drinking habits, living arrangements and demographic questions. This study's results indicate that neuroticism, conscientiousness, living situation and extraversion predicts Alcohol consumption (R2 = .354, p <.001). Thus, students who have these personality traits and circumstances one by one or together have a increased risk for Alcohol over-consumption..

The aim of this study has been to take part of six ex-Alcohol addicts? narratives about their lives with starting-point in which factors that has been significant and/or determining to be able to leave a life in abuse and what change this process has implied for their identity. To achieve the purpose with this study has three questions been formulated. These are what in the person?s life have been important in the process of a life free from Alcohol, what were specific and decisive that effected the decision to stop using Alcohol and what is the attitude to them self and their new role as an ex-Alcohol addict. Alcohol is a drug that is legal and accepted in the society and it´s hard to discover an addiction.

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to examine Alcohol and tobacco habits in men's soccer in the in Sweden and compare those habits in different divisions. The method we used in the study was aquantitative survey report. Two teams participated in the survey, one team from the fifth divisionand one from the second division. The respondents (n=34) are born between 1977 and 1996. The results turned out to be very interesting because it both confirm and denies our hypothesis that players in higher divisions use less tobacco and Alcohol than players in lower divisions.

Abuse of Alcohol is one of the biggest problems that society faces today. There are between three and four hundred thousand abusers in Sweden. In addition there are about three hundred thousand over consumers. The government bill proposed in 1977 gave the labour market most of the responsibility to solve the problem. They thought a meaningful job and a spirit of community were the most important factors to decrease abuse of Alcohol and social rejection.

The purpose of our qualitative study is to investigate how the caretakers, in the elderly care,interpret and manage the issue of Alcohol problems in elderly people. We have beenperforming semi-structured interviews on 9 people, on different levels in the elderly care.There were 3 elderly care managers, 1 nurse, 1 assistance administrator and 4 auxiliarynurses, who all, at some level, work with Alcohol problems in elderly people. Thoseinterviews were performed singularly, with one exception: we interviewed an elderly caremanager and her 2 auxiliary nurses at the same time. To analyse our empirics, we have usedthe theories of Power and Ageism. Our study shows that the auxiliary nurses, who are theones who must deal with these problems, have great difficulties to perform their work becausethey have no qualified knowledge about Alcohol problems.