EVALUATING JOB STRESS PROGRAM TO PREVENT ADM DISORDERS

本提案的主要目标是测试和评估 采取行动研究办法预防 与职业压力有关的酒精、药物滥用和心理健康 紊乱 具体而言，要评估的干预措施将使用 现有的“员工参与决策”计划， 一系列创新的机制， 组织压力源，并加强员工个人的应对 能力. 拟议的研究将在福特汽车公司进行 东南部农村地区的一家汽车零部件制造厂 密歇根 行动研究设计将涉及全厂范围的 对36名员工进行了三次员工态度的纵向调查 月以及访谈、记录和文件中的数据， 参与观察。 本研究的预期益处包括：1）了解 一个正式的、定义明确的员工参与计划对健康的影响， 心理健康和行为结果; 2）更好地改善 不同形式的不同影响的理论发展， 工作场所的社会支持对健康，心理健康和行为 结果; 3）使用员工的模型干预的发展 解决问题小组，以解决工作场所的压力问题。

The primary objective of this proposal is to test and evaluate the effectiveness of an action-research approach for the prevention of occupational stress-related alcohol, drug-abuse, and mental health disorders. Specifically, the intervention to be evaluated will use an existing "employee participation in decison making" program as the mechanism for introducing a series of innovations intended to reduce organizational sources of stress, and enhance individual employees' coping abilities. The proposed research will be conducted in a Ford Motor Company automotive parts manufacturing plant in a rural area of southeastern Michigan. The action-research design will involve a plant-wide longitudinal survey of employee attitudes administered three times over 36 months as well as data from interviews, records and documents, and participant observation. The expected benefits from this study include: 1) an understanding of the effects of a formal, well-defined employee participation program on health, mental health, and behavioral outcomes; 2) greater refinement in theoretical developments of the differential effects of different forms of social support in the workplace on health, mental health, and behavioral outcomes; 3) the development of a model intervention for using employee problem-solving groups to address problems of workplace stress.