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KMID : 0381219770090040035
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Journal of RIMSK
1977 Volume.9 No. 4 p.35 ~ p.55
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The Socia-Psychiatric Kes2arch on. the Young Alcoholics in Korea
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Abstract
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Current issues on youth in Korea is the rebellion against traditional value orientation and auth-oritarian figures, and this young man .power is expressed partially through epidemic expansion of political demonstration, once marihuana smoking and alcohol drinking. While it is commonly thought that the incidence of alcoholism is at maximum between the ages of 35 to 40, it would be a mistake to believe that the condition is insignificant at other age periods, particularly among the adolescent group.
Thus it is surprising that in the numerous studies on alcoholics reported in the literature, the young patient has received only passing attention in spite of unfavorable prognosis. While several authors have commented on the problem of the young alcoholics, none have focused -on this adolescent group alone.
With this in mind we undertook a study devoted entirely to young alcoholics fri on" ´the age 12 through 30. The aims of this study were two-fold, to examine the characteristics of a group of adolescent alcoholics and compare them with a control group-of young adult alcoholics, and to study epidemiological characteristics of young alcoholics by sex and geographical `difference.
The final samples of 250 alcoholics had an age range of ´ 12 through 30 years with a group mean of 24.5 years. Sixty five of the alcoholics were adolescent group ages from´ 12 to 21, 185 cases of the alcoholics were young adult group ages from 22 to 30, and the summary of the results are as follows;
1. In the alcoholism rate among 379 caws of Korean young drinkers, it, was revealed that young adult group (69. 0%) occupied higher rate of alcoholism comparing with adolescent group(58.6%) and male group (71.4%) are higher than female group (60.,0%), but the urban group (66.21%) gave no significant difference between the rural group (65.7%).
2. For the diagnostic criteria of alcoholism there is a positive relationship with the frequency of alcoholic intoxication and a negative relationship with the amount of drinking in young alcoh-olics, especially in male alcoholics.
3. For the psychodynamic explanation to the development of alcoholism, most significant others in young alcoholics are pathological mothering ones. From this research, it was revealed that majority of young alcoholics come from a broken home or home with much parental discord, particularly where the mother had psychiatric illness such as alcoholism, depression or psychoses. This unhappy home milieu play a major role for young man to drink alcohol too much, especially in adolescent rural male subjects.
4. From the analysis of personal identifying data’s, we aware that young alcoholics live in lower socio-economic-educational environment, work in poor employment status such as farmer or blue collar laborer, and enjoy with masculine hobbies such ´-as heavy cigarette smoking, heavy alcohol drinking or playing sports, especially in adolescent rural male subjects.
5. The adolescent alcoholics show the other characteristic pictures comparing with the young adult alcoholics, and this significant variables are as follows;
A. Starting to drink earlier in life (before 14 years-9.2%)
B. Personality disorders (81.5%) such as cyclothymic personality (53.8%)
C. Alcoholic indulgence due to relieve intrapsychic conflict or intrafamilial stress (13. 8%)
D. Physiological problems because of drinking such as the episode of alcoholic blackout(32.8%) or the history of alcoholic hepatitis (31.2%)
6. The male young alcoholics show the other characteristic pictures comparing with female young alcoholics, and this significant variables are as follows;
A. Alcoholic indulgence due to relieve vocational stress (7.7%), military stress (10.6.%), or intra-psychic conflict (28.9%)
B. Interpersonal difficulties in their social life (13.4%)
C. Being the middle child of the sibling (46,5%)
D. Attitudinal problems such as the drinking perception by oneself (63J%)
E. Behavioral problems such as the arrest by drunken drinking(21.,8%) or the episode of figh-ting during drinking (35.9%)
F. Psychological problems such as the worrying about drinking by family members( (43. 7% the going to anyone for help about, this drinking by oneself (23.90 or family member (17.6%) or the history of psychiatric hospitalization (12.0% )
7. Rural young alcoholics tends to be indulge alcohol drinking because of relieving´ military stress (8.7%) or enjoying good companionship (28.7%)
8. Urban groups show more attitudinal problems such as the being able to. break drinking when wants (65.9%) or the quitting drink without a struggle (68.9%)
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