HARASSMENT, GENDER AND DRINKING; AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY

这项对大学员工队列的持续流行病学研究的目的是：1)描述性骚扰（SH）和普遍的工作场所虐待（GWA）对有害酒精相关结果的长期影响；2)解决最近社会对SH的态度和制度反应的转变（使用客观和自我报告数据），假设目标积极应对SH的能力发生变化，并假设对有害饮酒结果的脆弱性降低；心理健康和法律服务的利用在保护青少年健康和家庭福利目标免遭有害的酒精相关后果方面发挥着作用。参与当前研究的受访者（N= 2489）将在第3、4和5轮（每隔一年）进行重新调查。邮寄问卷的地址为：自第二波数据收集以来的妇女健康和妇女福利经历、对性骚扰、其他工作压力源的组织容忍、直接积极应对、回避应对、获得社会支持、利用处理骚扰的工作场所办公室、使用保健、心理健康和法律专业服务、对服务提供的关注和满意度、症状性痛苦、酗酒和滥用以及使用其他物质；SH/GWA经历的时间和饮酒的增加。将利用各种多元统计技术来描述随时间变化的SH/GWA经历及其对饮酒结果的影响，并描述骚扰和虐待影响有害饮酒行为的各种途径。深入访谈将进一步阐明受访者在直接应对骚扰和虐待以及利用专业服务方面的经验。主要目标是：1)促进预防基于工作的骚扰和虐待；2)确定帮助来源，以促进有效应对，而不是通过使用酒精和滥用或使用其他物质自我治疗痛苦。

Objectives of this continuing epidemiologic study of a university employee cohort are: 1) to delineate longer-term consequences of sexual harassment (SH) and generalized workplace abuse (GWA) on deleterious alcohol-related outcomes, 2) to address recent societal transformations in attitudes and institutional responses to SH (using objective and self-report data), hypothesized changes in targets' abilities to actively cope with SH, and hypothesized decreased vulnerability to deleterious drinking outcomes, and 3) to examine the roles that health, mental health and legal service utilization play in protecting targets of SH and GWA from deleterious alcohol-related outcomes. Respondents (N=2,489) who participated in the current study will be resurveyed at waves 3, 4 and 5 (each one year apart). The mail questionnaires will address: SH and GWA experiences since wave 2 data collection, organizational tolerance of sexual harassment, other work stressors, direct active coping, avoidant coping, the elicitation of social supports, utilization of workplace offices dealing with harassment, use of health, mental health and legal professional services, focus of and satisfaction with service provision, symptomatic distress, alcohol use and abuse and the use of other substances, and the timing of SH/GWA experiences and increases in drinking. A variety of multivariate statistical techniques will be utilized to depict changes over time in SH/GWA experiences and their effect on drinking outcomes, and to depict the varied pathways through which harassment and abuse impact on deleterious drinking behaviors. In-depth interview will further elucidate respondents' experiences in directly coping with harassment and abuse and utilizing professional services. Major goals are 1) to contribute to the prevention of work-based harassment and abuse and, 2) to identify sources of help which promote effective coping in place of the self-medication of distress through alcohol use and abuse or the use of other substances.