A multi-variate discriminant analysis of a variation in the convergence hypothesis
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1992
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Bergob, Michael Jean
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The purpose of this thesis was to test the hypothesis that women and men in equivalent social positions would have similar patterns of alcohol use. This hypothesis is a variation of the convergence hypothesis in alcohol research and is based on Bonger's ([1916] 1969) observation that where the social position of women approaches that of men, differences in the manner of their lives diminish. For the purpose of testing this hypothesis, a status consistent social position was described by the intersection of three socioeconomic indicators--educational, occupational and income level--and a sample (N = 996) of status consistent women and men was selected from the National Alcohol and Other Drugs Survey (N = 11,634).
The results of a multi-variate discriminant analysis indicated that status consistent women and men were not substantively divergent in their alcohol use patterns as indicated by the set of situational frequency variables, the set of situational quantity variables, the set of social drinking variables, and the set of individual quantity frequency variables. However, the results of an interactive discriminant analysis indicated that gender differences in patterns of alcohol use were substantive when examined by age, marital status, parental status and socio-economic position for each of the four discriminant variable sets.
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UN SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities