Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Associations between occupational stress, work–family imbalance, and harmful alcohol consumption among workers: A longitudinal study
Originally published 2025-08-05 · PCN Reports: Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Wiley · DOI 10.1002/pcn5.70177 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about organizational prevention that considers work-family strain; the original evidence concerns 640 Japanese workers below the harmful-alcohol screening threshold at baseline.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
How might strain crossing from work to home affect health behaviors over time?
This reading brings negative work-to-family spillover and subsequent harmful-alcohol screening scores into the kindness pathway. The longitudinal occupational health survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
640 Japanese workers below the harmful-alcohol screening threshold at baseline
Age / stage: Working adults aged 20-65
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess baseline exclusions and follow-up alcohol screening?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about unexpected workload findings and negative work-to-family spillover?
- What would need to be checked before adopting organizational prevention that considers work-family strain?
Keep the limits in view
Follow-up attrition, screening rather than clinical diagnosis, and observational models constrain causality; the study does not establish that reducing workload alone prevents harmful use.
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Kunio Maekubo; Yasuhiko Deguchi; Shinichi Iwasaki; Shohei Okura; Ayaka Matsunaga; Kohei Yamashita; Koki Inoue (2025). Associations between occupational stress, work–family imbalance, and harmful alcohol consumption among workers: A longitudinal study PCN Reports: Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. https://doi.org/10.1002/pcn5.70177
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