This research represents the continuation and extension of a project that asks whether, to what degree, and under what circumstances the process of workplace restructuring has adverse drinking and health consequences for employees. It asks, in particular, whether """"""""downsizing"""""""" and """"""""reengineering,"""""""" increasingly common among American manufacturing firms, contribute to problematic drinking behavior and ill health by heightening levels of stress and dissatisfaction among employees. It asks, moreover, whether certain groups among employee populations find themselves especially """"""""at risk"""""""" for alcohol and health problems in a restructuring environment-mainly w=anagers and those with """"""""escapist"""""""" drinking orientations--and why this might be the case. The research uses a longitudinal panel design so that causal statements can be made more confidently about the impact of restructuring on the well-being of employees, understood in terms of alcohol involvement, mental health, and physical health. It builds on years of research by the investigators on the link between jobs, workplace organization, and problem drinking and health outcomes, and attempts to fill important empirical and theoretical lacunae. The research will be conducted in one of America's largest and most important manufacturing firms where downsizing and job reengineering have been going on for years, whose employees show wide variation in the degree to which they have personally experienced these changes (thus, providing considerable variation on our key study variables), and whose employees have a wide range of demographic characteristics and job skills (ranging from semi-skilled assembly work to aeronautical engineering). This proposal asks for funding to support two additional surveys of a panel sample surveyed in early 1997 and early 2000.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01AA010690-07
Application #
6737527
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-SNEM-1 (01))
Program Officer
Scott, Marcia S
Project Start
1996-05-01
Project End
2006-04-30
Budget Start
2004-05-01
Budget End
2005-04-30
Support Year
7
Fiscal Year
2004
Total Cost
$367,320
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Colorado at Boulder
Department
Psychology
Type
Other Domestic Higher Education
DUNS #
007431505
City
Boulder
State
CO
Country
United States
Zip Code
80309
Moore, Sarah; Sikora, Patricia; Grunberg, Leon et al. (2007) Work stress and alcohol use: Examining the tension-reduction model as a function of worker's parent's alcohol use. Addict Behav 32:3114-21
Moore, Sarah; Grunberg, Leon; Greenberg, Edward (2004) Repeated downsizing contact: the effects of similar and dissimilar layoff experiences on work and well-being outcomes. J Occup Health Psychol 9:247-57
Moore, Sarah; Grunberg, Leon; Greenberg, Edward (2003) A longitudinal exploration of alcohol use and problems comparing managerial and nonmanagerial men and women. Addict Behav 28:687-703
Grunberg, L; Moore, S Y; Greenberg, E (2001) Differences in psychological and physical health among layoff survivors: the effect of layoff contact. J Occup Health Psychol 6:15-25
Moore, S; Grunberg, L; Greenberg, E (2000) The relationships between alcohol problems and well-being, work attitudes, and performance: are they monotonic? J Subst Abuse 11:183-204
Grunberg, L; Moore, S; Anderson-Connolly, R et al. (1999) Work stress and self-reported alcohol use: the moderating role of escapist reasons for drinking. J Occup Health Psychol 4:29-36