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Title: Do Job Conditions Influence the Use of Drugs?
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Mensch, Barbara S. Kandel, Denise B. |
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Do Job Conditions Influence the Use of Drugs? Journal of Health and Social Behavior 29,2 (June 1988): 169-184. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2137056 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Drug Use; Job Satisfaction; Occupations; Self-Reporting; Working Conditions Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The relationship between job conditions and use of four classes of drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana and cocaine, are investigated using data from the NLSY, a nationally representative survey of the labor force experience of young adults aged 19-27 in 1984. Indirect measures of job characteristics, based on Census-based classifications developed by Karasek, et al.,1987 and the DOT (Miller et al., 1980) were supplemented by limited self-reported measures. No clear epidemiological patterns emerge regarding the distribution of drug use either in general or on the job across occupations and industries. Similarly, specific job dimensions, whether assessed from job titles or from the respondents themselves, showed very low correlations with recency/frequency measures of drug use. Individual factors indexing lack of commitment to social institutions, such as having dropped out of school, participation in delinquent activities and not being married are much stronger predictors of drug use than specific job conditions. This study concludes that substance use by workers is not due as much to conditions of the work place as to attributes of the work force. |
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Mensch, Barbara S. and Denise B. Kandel. "Do Job Conditions Influence the Use of Drugs?" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 29,2 (June 1988): 169-184.
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