OBJECTIVE This article reports on the relationship between drinking patterns and workplace problems in a manufacturing facility operated by a Fortune 500 industry. METHOD The data come from a survey of 832 hourly employees (88% male) and from ethnographic research in the plant. This study is distinctive because it examined a large random sample of workers, rather than an impaired subpopulatio...

ISSUE ADDRESSED Australian university students consume large amounts of alcohol. There is little published information about personal and academic problems associated with this behaviour. We sought to estimate the prevalence, and identify variables associated with, alcohol-related problems among undergraduate hazardous drinkers. METHODS The control group members (942 undergraduates, 53.3% mal...

www.ums.ac.uk The epilepsies are a common, heterogeneous group of disorders linked by a tendency to recurrent seizures in affected individuals and which have no respect for age, gender, race or social status. A seizure is defined as an intermittent, stereotyped, disturbance of consciousness, behaviour, emotion, motor function, or sensation that on clinical grounds is believed to result from cor...

In this study, the authors contribute insight into the temporal nature of work attitudes, examining how job satisfaction changes across the 1st year of employment for a sample of organizational newcomers. The authors examined factors related to job change (i.e., voluntary turnover, prior job satisfaction) and newcomer experiences (i.e., fulfillment of commitments, extent of socialization) that ...