Posted on 04/13/2019 3:43:42 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Employees who work in the public eye who force themselves to smile for customers or hide feelings of annoyance may be susceptible to heavy drinking after hours, according to a new study.
Researchers at Penn State and the University of Buffalo studied the drinking habits of employees who work in the public view. Some of the jobs studied include nurses, teachers or food service employees.
The study found a link between those who fake positive emotions or suppress feelings like eye rolling with heavier drinking after their shifts ended.
Alicia Grandey, professor of psychology at Penn State, believes these type of jobs should limit the need for employees to smile for the customer, according to the study.
"Faking and suppressing emotions with customers was related to drinking beyond the stress of the job or feeling negatively," said Grandey. "It wasn't just feeling badly that makes them reach for a drink. Instead, the more they have to control negative emotions at work, the less they are able to control their alcohol intake after work."
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Can confirm.
This is stupid and inaccurate.
Many people work in such environments who don’t drink excessively.
And there are also many people who work in different areas who do drink excessively.
The DMV must have a very sober staff.
I rarely drink.
Doesn’t explain Hillary though - she doesn’t even try to force a smile, yet she’s drunk as a skunk.
Even if an honest study correlation does not always infer causation. I doubt seriously if you can possibly know all the factor sufficiently do such a study.
Most positive contacts with the public at the DMV would have to be faked. People come in with dumb questions. My favorite in NYC was where a girl in front of me asked the DMV person if she could have the “easy test,” because her friends had told her there was an “easy test.” He didn’t roll his eyes but just told her there wasn’t an “easy test” - so this means he’s an alcoholic?
Sorry, but this is just a dumb study and I’m not sure exactly what their objective was in doing it.
It is stupid.
“The DMV must have a very sober staff.’
And the post office must all be teetotalers
Is that the bitch from Apartment 23?
I daydream about heavy drinking while at work.
Reminds me of the “perfesser” whose work on eating behavior was retracted because he made it up.
Especially with politicians.
This is idiotic.
“Sorry, but this is just a dumb study and I’m not sure exactly what their objective was in doing it.”
Probably to fulfill a government grant requirement.
Probably. But why?
I never fake a smile, nor do I hide my annoyance at dumb people (well sometimes on that one - there are just too many stupid people out there).
I have several drinks every night before dinner. Which I thoroughly enjoy.
Take that alcohol Nazis.
Doing one’s job is too hard. Must get drunk and blame society
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