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Title: White Collar Occupational Stress, Heavy Drinking-Smoking in Later Life, and the Moderating Effects of Social Support: A Longitudinal Study of Older Men
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Jennison, Karen M. Johnson, Kenneth A. |
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White Collar Occupational Stress, Heavy Drinking-Smoking in Later Life, and the Moderating Effects of Social Support: A Longitudinal Study of Older Men Presented: Los Angeles, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 1994 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Addiction; Alcohol Use; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Occupational Status; Stress; Support Networks; White Collar Jobs Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The identification of risk factors has been established as a critical need in studies of problem drinking among older adults. This analysis is a cohort-based prospective study of risk factors in the workplace based on the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) of older men. The nationally representative NLS sample (5,020 men aged 45-59 when first surveyed in 1966) consists of re-interviews in 1990 with 2,092 survivors then aged 69 to 84, 1,341 widows of decedents, and, in the absence of a living widow, 865 proxy relatives of decedents. Three central issues are examined in the white-collar occupational group (N=795): (1) heavy drinking and cigarette smoking may be synergistically interrelated; (2) their combined prevalence among older men may be largely attributed to addictive patterns established earlier in life in response to self-perceived occupational stress (pace, pressure, and fatigue); (3) instrumental or emotional forms of social support provided in later years may moderate the residual effects of work stress on addictive behavior. A series of multivariate statistical analyses supported all three hypotheses. Heavy drinking and smoking concurrence was significantly more likely among survivors, and also in widow's accounts of decedents, who reported a history of chronic occupational stress, particularly the work pace variety experienced in the middle to late pre-retirement years. With little exception, the social support variable which was found to comprehensively moderate the direct effects of occupational stress among older men was a spouse who was designated a special confidant in a trusting, helping personal relationship. |
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Jennison, Karen M. and Kenneth A. Johnson. "White Collar Occupational Stress, Heavy Drinking-Smoking in Later Life, and the Moderating Effects of Social Support: A Longitudinal Study of Older Men." Presented: Los Angeles, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 1994. |