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Denise M Reiling1, Michael R Nusbaumer
1Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA. dreiling@emich.edu
Abstract:
Our objective was to examine alcoholic beverage servers' willingness to over-serve as an explanation for intoxication that occurs in drinking establishments. Survey data were collected in 2000 from 911 alcoholic beverage servers in the State of Indiana, USA, with a grant from Indiana University. Chi-squared, analysis of variance, and step-wise regression were used to examine the influence of personal factors, location factors, management policies and practices, and larger societal control efforts on willingness to over-serve. Our findings support the need to examine managements' economic motivation and servers' personal drinking patterns as motivations for serving beyond intoxication in future research.
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