WORK RETIREMENT AND DRINKING AMONG BLUE COLLAR WORKERS

蓝领工人的工作退休和饮酒

• 批准号: 6629627
• 负责人: SAMUEL B BACHARACH
• 金额: $ 23.61万
• 依托单位: CORNELL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-01 至 2005-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6629627
• 关键词: alcoholic beverage consumption; alcoholism /alcohol abuse; alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; data collection methodology /evaluation; dyadic interaction; gender difference; health services research tag; human subject; industry; isolation /deprivation; longitudinal human study; mathematical model; occupational psychology; population survey; psychological stressor; questionnaires; racial /ethnic difference; retirement; role; self concept; social adjustment; social behavior; social model; social support network

The proposed study grows out of our current NIAAA-funded research on work-related risk factors and drinking and drinking behavior among employed blue-collar workers and extends that research by examining the risk factors associated with the work disengagement process among blue collar workers eligible for retirement. The need for such research and its prevent implications have become evident to us in our current research. We propose to examine how different levels of social isolation (i.e., depth and breadth of social support or lack thereof), social control (loss of [or relief from] work-based systems or rules governing drinking), stress (e.g., financial insecurity, role underload, marital strain), and social marginalization (e.g., role confusion, lowered self- efficacy, loss of self-esteem) experienced during the retirement process impact drinking behavior. Such information is necessary so that unions and others can develop and implement effective prevention and intervention strategies for assisting retirees with alcohol problems. Because research in this area is sparse, the proposed research both generates and test theory. Using qualitative data collected from workers in blue-collar occupations, we will delineate the specific ways in which isolation, social control, stress and social marginalization (as well as other risk factors uncovered by the qualitative analysis) impact drinking behavior. Based on the qualitative data, a self-report survey will be developed and data will then be collected from retirement- eligible workers in blue-collar occupations at three points in time (approximately six months before the date of retirement eligibility, and then six and eighteen months after that date). These survey data will be analyzed using linear structural equation techniques to test the plausibility of alternative models of retirement-related variables and alcohol abuse.

这项拟议的研究源于我们目前由NIAAA资助的关于工作相关风险因素以及蓝领工人饮酒和饮酒行为的研究，并通过研究与蓝领工人退休资格相关的风险因素来扩展该研究。在我们目前的研究中，这种研究的必要性及其预防意义对我们来说已经变得很明显。我们建议研究不同程度的社会隔离（即，社会支持的深度和广度或缺乏），社会控制（基于工作的系统或管理饮酒的规则的丧失[或减轻]），压力（例如，财务不安全、角色负担不足、婚姻紧张）和社会边缘化（例如，角色混淆、自我效能降低、自尊丧失）影响饮酒行为。这些信息是必要的，以便工会和其他方面能够制定和执行有效的预防和干预战略，帮助有酗酒问题的退休人员。由于在这方面的研究是稀疏的，所提出的研究既产生和测试理论。利用从蓝领工人中收集的定性数据，我们将描述孤立，社会控制，压力和社会边缘化（以及定性分析发现的其他风险因素）影响饮酒行为的具体方式。根据定性数据，将开展一项自我报告调查，然后在三个时间点（退休资格日期前约六个月，之后六个月和十八个月）从蓝领职业中符合退休条件的工人那里收集数据。这些调查数据将使用线性结构方程技术进行分析，以测试与退休有关的变量和酗酒的替代模型的可行性。