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KMID : 0377619890540080549
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1989 Volume.54 No. 8 p.549 ~ p.557
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A Sociopsychiatric Study of Hospitalized Substance-Abuse Adolescent
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Abstract
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The Present study was intended to investigate the relationship between adolescent´s substance abuse and their parental child-rearing attitude, and then to examine the substanceabusers characteristics such as the motivation of drug-abuse, personality trait, the kind of drugs abused etc., in order to establish the basic guideline data for preventing adolescent´s substance abuse. Data we re collected through reviewing of patient´s medical records and direct interview by four psychiatric residents and two staff psychiatrists. Subjects served for this study consisted of 21 psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents. Their ages were ranged from 13 to 21. Statistical methods employed were X2 and Wilcoxon´s signed rank test.
Results of the study were as follows:
1. Substance abuse behaviors among subjects occurred repeatedly for at least 6 months or /and over a longer period of time, and occurred predominantly in the middle age group.
2. In the motivation of substance abuse, the highest one was 45.2 percent in seeking friendships, followed by 30.9 percent in power seeking responses, 14.3 percent in peace seeking responses and 9.5 percent for seeking adventures. The most frequent substance used was Bond (66.6 percent), next one, Marijuana (14.3 percent) and Romilar (9.5 percent) etc. Bond-sniffers particularily enjoyed inhalating glues with their peer groups.
3. 80.8 percent of substance abusers had experienced the alcohol drinking orJand cigarette smoking before abusing the other substances, 57.1 percent of them before 15 years old. In addition, they showed antisocial or borderline personality patterns.
4. The defective child-rearing pattern such as rejecting their child tended to bear significant relationship with children´s substance abuse, especially marital bond of parent was the types of paternal alcoholing-maternal depression, on the other hand, adolescents hospitalized due to the other mental problems responded that their father rejected them, while their mother overprotected them.
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