Prevention Research Center of Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Berkeley, California 94704, USA.
J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2013 Mar;74(2):195-204. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2013.74.195.
A body of research has established that lower socioeconomic populations, including blue-collar workers, are at higher risk for problem drinking and intimate partner violence. This study of married/cohabiting construction workers and their spouses/partners describes how work stressors, hazardous drinking, and couple characteristics interact to influence normative beliefs around partner violence and, thereafter, its occurrence.
Our survey respondents from a sample of 502 dual-earner couples were asked about drinking patterns, past-year partner violence, normative beliefs about partner violence, work-related stressors, impulsivity, and childhood exposure to violence and other adverse events. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 81 workers on context of work stress, partner violence, and drinking.
Analyses of data revealed that men's and women's normative beliefs about partner violence were positively related to maleto- female partner violence; female partner violence normative beliefs were associated with female-to-male partner violence. Both partners' levels of impulsivity were directly associated with male-to-female and female-to-male partner violence, and male partner's frequency of intoxication mediated the association between level of impulsivity and male-to-female partner violence. Female partner's adverse childhood experience was directly associated with male-to-female partner violence. Both survey and qualitative interviews identified individual and workrelated factors that influence the occurrence of violence between men and women.
These findings provide guidelines for prevention of partner violence that can be implemented in the workplace with attention to hazardous drinking, job stress, treatment, education, and work culture.
大量研究表明，包括蓝领工人在内的社会经济地位较低的人群更容易出现酗酒和亲密伴侣暴力问题。本研究对已婚/同居的建筑工人及其配偶/伴侣进行了研究，描述了工作压力源、危险饮酒和夫妻特征如何相互作用，影响伴侣暴力的规范信念，进而影响其发生。
我们从 502 对双职工夫妇的样本中调查了受访者的饮酒模式、过去一年的伴侣暴力、伴侣暴力的规范信念、与工作相关的压力源、冲动性以及童年时期暴露于暴力和其他不良事件的情况。我们对 81 名工人进行了半结构化的定性访谈，了解工作压力、伴侣暴力和饮酒的情况。
数据分析表明，男性和女性对伴侣暴力的规范信念与男性对女性伴侣暴力呈正相关；女性对伴侣暴力的规范信念与女性对男性伴侣暴力有关。夫妻双方的冲动水平与男性对女性和女性对男性的伴侣暴力直接相关，而男性伴侣的醉酒频率则调节了冲动水平与男性对女性伴侣暴力之间的关系。女性伴侣的不良童年经历与男性对女性伴侣暴力直接相关。调查和定性访谈都确定了影响男女之间暴力发生的个人和工作因素。
这些发现为预防伴侣暴力提供了指导，在工作场所可以通过关注危险饮酒、工作压力、治疗、教育和工作文化来实施这些指导。
