Do the key drivers of alcohol misuse change as young adults transition from early to late stages of employee onboarding? To answer this question, a series of hypotheses were tested based on two waves of data collected from 1240 college graduates from four different universities in the United States who reported obtaining full-time employment following college graduation. Data on alcohol misuse and hypothesized mechanisms—peer drinking norms and work-related stressors—were collected during the early (i.e. first few months on the job: T1) and late (12 months following initial assessment: T2) stages of employee onboarding. Results indicate that both a key work-related stressor (role overload) and injunctive peer drinking norms (i.e. those focusing on others’ approval) drive alcohol misuse in the transition from early to late stages of onboarding. However, while the relationships between injunctive peer drinking norms and alcohol misuse remain constant over the two measurement points, the mediated relationships between work-related stressors and alcohol misuse via distress is curvilinear and significantly weakens from early to late onboarding. We argue that this observed attenuation suggests that some risk factors can drive alcohol misuse in a way that is non-monotonic as well as dynamic over the course of emerging adults’ career entry.

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工作压力源和同伴规范如何以及何时影响职业参与者的酒精相关行为及其后果？


随着年轻人从员工入职的早期阶段过渡到后期阶段，酒精滥用的主要驱动因素是否会发生变化？为了回答这个问题，根据从美国四所不同大学的 1240 名大学毕业生那里收集的两波数据，测试了一系列假设，这些毕业生报告在大学毕业后获得了全职工作。在员工入职的早期（即工作的最初几个月：T1）和晚期（初步评估后 12 个月：T2）阶段收集了有关酒精滥用和假设机制（同伴饮酒规范和与工作相关的压力源）的数据。结果表明，在入职的早期到后期过渡期间，与工作相关的关键压力源（角色超负荷）和禁令性同伴饮酒规范（即那些关注他人认可的规范）都会推动酒精滥用。然而，虽然禁令性同伴饮酒规范与酒精滥用之间的关系在两个测量点上保持不变，但与工作相关的压力源与通过痛苦滥用酒精之间的中介关系是曲线的，并且从入职早期到晚期显着减弱。我们认为，这种观察到的衰减表明，一些风险因素可以在新兴成年人进入职业生涯的过程中以非单调和动态的方式驱动酒精滥用。