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The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between the problem behavioral patterns of Korean adolescent students and their family environmental variables, and to collect baseline data for the establishment of effective measures to prevent delinquent acting-out. The data were collected through the questionnaire survey which was conducted on Dec. 1, 1983. Subjects served for this study consisted of 1,404 adolescent students in Korea, randomly sampled from Korean student population by means of census method. Their age range was from 12 to 21. The actual number of cases put into the analyses was 1,315 consisting of 661 boys and 654 girls. The data were analysed by CDC-174 computer of KAIST, using SPSS program. Statistical methods employed were X^2 test and Eta measures. Results of the study were as follows: 1. The 7 types of major problem behavioral patterns of Korean adolescent students were classified arbitrarily by the author as follows: socialized modelling behavior, socialized latent aggressive behavior, undersocialized avoidant behavior of school-norm, socialized sexual behavior, undersocialized nonaggressive behavior, socialized nonaggressive behavior, and undersocialized aggressive behavior in the order of their frequency. Among them, the socialized modeling behavior had the highest incidence with 67.4%. Students with the socialized modeling behavior showed behavioral patterns such as ’frequenting youth forbidden movies’, ’collecting actor’s pictures’, ’modelling of actors and heros’, ’one-sided love with opposite sex teacher’ etc. 2. What most significantly affect children’s problem behavior were the reasons of their separation from parents such as ’parental divorce’, ’paternal or maternal hospitalization’, ’paternal oversea working’, and ’separation with parent because of schooling’. Other affecting variables were parental favoritism, parental education, parental job, family size, parental expectation, parental marital bond, and parental religion stated in their order of predictability. 1) Father’s occupation, education and favoritism had more effect on children’s problem behaviors than those of mother’s. Essentially children showed more the socialized adult modelling behavior when their father had highly educated professional job and loved them. 2) The experience of separation from parents up to the present and the reasons of separation showed more significant correlation with their children’s problem behaviors than parental death variable. Particularly, frequent experiences of separation from parents, present state of separation, and separation due to schooling or economic problem were significantly correlated with the socialized latent aggressive behavior and the socialized sexual behavior. 3) The family size showed more significant correlation with their children’s problem behavior than the family constellation. Particularly, the large family size tended to bear significant relationships with their children’s socialized latent aggressive behavior and socialized sexual behavior, but the small family size with the undersocialized aggressive behavior. 4) When the parental marital bond between anxious mother and alcoholic father was disharmonized frequently by the latter, the adolescent tended to show developmental lag of superego and moral concept due to father-absence. Being reared in such family climate, the adolescent showed aggressive traits such as the socialized latent aggressive behavior, the undersocialized aggressive behavior, and the socialized sexual behavior. 5) The large family size and frequent experiences of separation from parents were significantly correlated with their socialized traits such as the socialized nonaggressive behavior, the socialized latent aggressive behavior, the socialized sexual behavior, and the sociallized adult modeling behavior. 6) The high parental education, professional level ef parental job, parental marital schism, and paternal favoritism of children were significantly correlated with their socialized adult modelling behavior.
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