A higher educated woman has a drinker

A woman with a degree learns by a large-scale survey targeting more than 10,000 people that the proportion of having a drinking drink every day compared with a woman who is not so high is nearly twice as high, and the proportion of having drinking problems is also high It was.

The tendency for highly educated people to be a drinker can be said in men, but women are far more prominent in this trend.

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Targeted all 39-year old male and female born in the UK in one week of 1970London School of EconomicsAccording to the survey by the women, it is revealed that women have a tendency to drink alcohol like everyday the more highly educated, and there is a high proportion of problems with drinking habits. Thesis isSocial Science & MedicineIt is published in the magazine.

In the survey, together with the data on the score of the academic ability tests of men and women born in the UK in one week in 1970 and the final academic background, "Do you feel that you need to reduce alcohol consumption?" "Calm down the spirit We analyzed the results of the periodic questionnaire survey including question items such as "Do you have experience of drinking first in the morning in order to overcome the hangover"? In addition, the number of people who got data on each item in the survey process was a minimum of 9655 people and a maximum of 17,287 people.

According to the survey results, women with academic background (certificate, diploma, degree in junior college or vocational school level in Japan) are 1.71 times drinking alcohol daily compared with women who do not, women with degree degrees above bachelor degree In addition, it was 1.86 times that these highly educated women answered that it is judged to have "drinking problem" in the questionnaire survey, also 1.7 times.

Also, not only the final academic record but also the score of the academic ability test at the time of 5 to 10 years old can predict the future drunk habit of the woman, and have the "moderate" or "high" academic ability at childhood It is said that the probability that drinking alcohol drinking everyday became adults is 2.1 times higher than women who had low academic ability.

The tendency for highly educated people to drink more than men was seen in men, but in men who were supposed to have moderate to high academic ability at childhood, the proportion of drinkers who become adults and drink compared to men who are not so It was 1.49 times that it was not seen as much as women.

Francesca Borgonovi and Maria Huerta who did this research tend to have a tendency for children with high education to have a time to live, active social life, working in a male-focused workplace with "drinking culture" Explaining that there are many, many women who grew up in middle class families and grew up watching their parents drink alcohol on a daily basis, and so on.

Receiving this resultAlcohol ConcernA spokesperson for the British charity organization (a British charity organization aimed at reducing alcohol abuse) said, "This result is focused on the issues that need to be addressed, those with high academic qualities have high disposable income, Marketing strategies such as wine advertising targeting people, especially working women, will also boost drinking.People who abuse alcohol suffer from cancer, liver cirrhosis, lung and cardiovascular diseases · mental and behavior problems etc. , I am at risk of various health problems. "

The results of the survey are in the UK, but it is common in Japan that highly-educated women have a high age of childbirth and high disposable incomes are common in Japan, so Japanese women may be drinkers as highly educated .