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Alcohol Expectancies and Workplace Drinking 1
Author(s) -
Grube Joel W.,
Ames Genevieve M.,
Delaney William
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1994.tb00605.x
Subject(s) - psychology , expectancy theory , evening , work (physics) , social psychology , path analysis (statistics) , heavy drinking , scale (ratio) , exploratory factor analysis , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , environmental health , clinical psychology , psychometrics , medicine , statistics , mechanical engineering , physics , mathematics , pathology , quantum mechanics , astronomy , engineering
The relationship between alcohol expectancies and work‐related drinking was investigated in a survey of 984 employees from a large unionized manufacturing plant. Respondents were asked about their drinking at work, just prior to work, and in other contexts. Alcohol expectancies were measured by asking how likely or unlikely it was that work‐related drinking would lead to 13 personal consequences. The items for this scale were derived from ethnographic interviews and observations in the plant and from a review of the workplace literature. Exploratory factor analysis indicated that the expectancy items formed two scales representing positive and negative consequences. These scales predicted work‐related drinking in a simultaneous equations path analysis, even when general drinking practices and background variables were controlled. The analysis also indicated that workers who were younger, Caucasian, hourly, on evening or night shifts, and frequent or heavy drinkers outside of work may be at risk for work‐related drinking because of their alcohol expectancies.