The Specific Features of Drinking Behaviour in Russia and Finland

The relationships between characteristics of drinking behaviour, gender, age and experiences related to drinking were studied in St. Petersburg. Interviews were conducted in 1999 with a representative sample of Petersburg's population between 15 and 69 years old (N=1980). It was one of the few attempts to create logistic regression models using recent Russian data. Intake of alcohol and frequency of drunkenness were the most important predictors of both negative and positive experiences related to drinking. Characteristics of drinking situation contributed significantly to the explanatory models, but their predictive power was small. The Russian explanatory models were compared with the Finnish ones based on interviews of 1992. The specific Petersburg features were higher degree of alcohol negative and positive experiences related to drinking, different association with the same characteristics of drinking occasions in studied countries.

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