A COMPARISON SAMPLE VALIDATION OF YOUR WORKPLACE - AN INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE PERCEIVED ALCOHOL SUPPORT AND CONSEQUENCES FROM THE WORK-ENVIRONMENT

This paper addresses the psychometric properties of Your Workplace (YW P), an instrument developed to measure perceived influence of workplac e norms and attitudes on alcohol involvement and the experience of adv erse consequences. Data were collected from a large, geographically di spersed sample of aftercare and outpatients recruited for a multisite clinical trial of alcoholism treatments. Project MATCH. Administration of YWP at the baseline assessment was restricted to workforce partici pants; A confirmatory factor analysis addressed instrument structure. Internal consistency and concurrent association between measures of ge neral social support, alcohol specific support, and alcohol involvemen t were examined. YWP scales were found to have adequate internal consi stency reliability. Correlation between YWP scales and concurrent meas ures of alcohol involvement were among the strongest found. Identifica tion of workplace influences on alcohol involvement allows refined ass essment and fosters a comprehensive approach to treatment of alcoholis m. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.