Home drinking practices among middle-class adults in midlife during the COVID-19 pandemic: Material ubiquity, automatic routines and embodied states.

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dc.citation.issue5
dc.citation.volume42
dc.contributor.authorLyons AC
dc.contributor.authorYoung J
dc.contributor.authorBlake D
dc.contributor.authorEvans P
dc.contributor.authorStephens C
dc.coverage.spatialAustralia
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-05T23:40:31Z
dc.date.available2024-05-05T23:40:31Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-01
dc.description.abstractINTRODUCTION: Harmful drinking is increasing among mid-life adults. Using social practice theory, this research investigated the knowledge, actions, materials, places and temporalities that comprise home drinking practices among middle-class adults (40-65 years) in Aotearoa New Zealand during 2021-2022 and post the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. METHODS: Nine friendship groups (N = 45; 26 females, 19 males from various life stages and ethnicities) discussed their drinking practices. A subset of 10 participants (8 female, 2 male) shared digital content (photos, screenshots) about alcohol and drinking over 2 weeks, which they subsequently discussed in an individual interview. Group and interview transcripts were thematically analysed using the digital content to inform the analysis. RESULTS: Three themes were identified around home drinking practices, namely: (i) alcohol objects as everywhere, embedded throughout spaces and places in the home; (ii) drinking practices as habitual, automatic and conditioned to mundane everyday domestic chores, routines and times; and (iii) drinking practices intentionally used by participants to achieve desired embodied states to manage feelings linked to domestic and everyday routines. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: Alcohol was normalised and everywhere within the homes of these midlife adults. Alcohol-related objects and products had their own agency, being entangled with domestic routines and activities, affecting drinking in both automatic and intentional ways. Developing alcohol policy that would change its ubiquitous and ordinary status, and the 'automatic' nature of many drinking practices, is needed. This includes restricting marketing and availability to disrupt the acceptability and normalisation of alcohol in the everyday domestic lives of adults at midlife.
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dc.edition.editionJuly 2023
dc.format.pagination1028-1040
dc.identifier.author-urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36757806
dc.identifier.citationLyons AC, Young J, Blake D, Evans P, Stephens C. (2023). Home drinking practices among middle-class adults in midlife during the COVID-19 pandemic: Material ubiquity, automatic routines and embodied states.. Drug Alcohol Rev. 42. 5. (pp. 1028-1040).
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/dar.13610
dc.identifier.eissn1465-3362
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn0959-5236
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69489
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc.
dc.publisher.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dar.13610
dc.relation.isPartOfDrug Alcohol Rev
dc.rights(c) 2023 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectalcohol
dc.subjectmidlife
dc.subjectsocial practices
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectAlcohol Drinking
dc.subjectPandemics
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectCommunicable Disease Control
dc.subjectAlcoholism
dc.titleHome drinking practices among middle-class adults in midlife during the COVID-19 pandemic: Material ubiquity, automatic routines and embodied states.
dc.typeJournal article
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