TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Hennecke, Juliane
T1  - Drinking is different!
BT  - examining the role of locus of control for alcohol consumption
JF  - Empirical economics
N2  - Locus of control (LOC) measures how much an individual believes in the causal relationship between her own actions and her life’s outcomes. While earlier literature has shown that an increasing internal LOC is associated with increased health-conscious behavior in domains such as smoking, exercise or diets, we find that drinking seems to be different. Using very informative German panel data, we extend and generalize previous findings and find a significant positive association between having an internal LOC and the probability of occasional and regular drinking for men and women. An increase in an individual’s LOC by one standard deviation increases the probability of occasional or regular drinking on average by 3.4% for men and 6.9% for women. Using a decomposition method, we show that roughly a quarter of this association can be explained by differences in the social activities between internal and external individuals.
KW  - locus of control
KW  - alcohol consumption
KW  - health behavior
KW  - risk perception
KW  - social activity
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-022-02219-3
SN  - 0377-7332
SN  - 1435-8921
VL  - 63
IS  - 5
SP  - 2785
EP  - 2815
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jeglinski-Mende, Melinda A.
T1  - Alcohol in the Aging Brain
BT  - The Interplay Between Alcohol Consumption, Cognitive Decline and the Cardiovascular System
JF  - Frontiers in Neuroscience
N2  - As our society grows older new challenges for medicine and healthcare emerge. Agerelated changes of the body have been observed in essential body functions, particularly in the loco-motor system, in the cardiovascular system and in cognitive functions concerning both brain plasticity and changes in behavior. Nutrition and lifestyle, such as nicotine intake and chronic alcohol consumption, also contribute to biological changes in the brain. This review addresses the effect of alcohol consumption on cognitive decline, changes in brain plasticity in the aging brain and on cardiovascular health in aging. Thus, studies on the interplay of chronic alcohol intake and either cognitive decline or cognitive preservation are outlined. Because of the inconsistency in the literature of whether alcohol consumption preserves cognitive functions in the aging brain or whether it accelerates cognitive decline, it is crucial to consider individual contributing factors such as culture, health and lifestyle in future studies.
KW  - cognitive decline
KW  - neuroplasticity
KW  - AUD
KW  - alcohol consumption
KW  - aging brain
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00713
SN  - 1662-453X
SN  - 1662-4548
VL  - 13
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -