HARASSMENT, GENDER AND DRINKING; AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY

这项对大学员工队列进行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）对有害的酒精相关结果的长期影响，2）解决最近社会对SH的态度和机构反应的转变（使用客观和自我报告数据），假设目标积极科普SH的能力发生变化，并假设对有害饮酒结果的脆弱性降低，（3）研究健康、心理健康和法律的服务利用在保护SH和GWA目标免受有害的酒精相关后果中的作用。 参与本研究的受访者（N= 2，489）将在第3、4和5波（每隔一年）接受重新调查。 邮寄问卷将涉及：自第二波数据收集以来，SH和GWA的经验，组织对性骚扰的容忍度，其他工作压力源，直接积极应对，回避应对，社会支持的吸引，处理骚扰的工作场所办公室的利用，健康，心理健康和法律的专业服务的使用，对服务提供的关注和满意度，症状性痛苦，酒精使用和滥用以及其他物质的使用，以及SH/GWA经历和饮酒增加的时间。 各种多元统计技术将被用来描绘随着时间的推移，SH/GWA的经验和他们对饮酒结果的影响的变化，并描绘通过骚扰和虐待有害的饮酒行为的影响的各种途径。 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）促进预防工作中的骚扰和虐待;（2）确定帮助来源，促进有效应对，以取代通过酗酒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.