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KMID : 0381219830150010001
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Journal of RIMSK
1983 Volume.15 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.18
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A Industrial Psychiatric Study on the Inter-relationships Between the Industrial Accident and Alcohol Drinking among Adolescent Workers in Korea
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Abstract
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In order to achieve this set-goals, sampling were made through disproportional probability sampling procedure, and qestionnaire were finally supplied to a total 633 cases of adolescent workers (266 males and 367 females), aged from 14 through 21, including 305 workers with accident and 328 workers without accident, coming from 59 companies located in Seoul, Kyunggi Do, and Kyungsang Bugdo. Data were analysed by CDC-174 computer of KIST, using SPSS program, and were statistically analysed by Chi-square test.
Summary of the results and conclusion were presented below.
Summary of the major findings:
1) One of every seven Korean adolescent workers (14.6%)-one out of four males (26.3%) and one out of 17 females (6.0%)-were found to drink alcohol habitually.
2) The sex ratio between the male and the female alcoholics stood at 4.5: 1. Such rate of alcoholism among female workers was relatively higher rate comparing with Korean student data (male/female is 5/1), and foreign data(U.S.A. is 5.5/1, Britain is 5.3/1, Japan is 60/1). From above findings, we suggested that female employment was closely related with alcoholism.
3) One out of five adolescent workers who experienced industrial accident (19.7%) admit that their accidents were related with overdrinking of the last night, and the rate of alcoholism in the accident group(16.4%) was higher proportion comparing with non-accident
group(10.7%). From the above mentioned two facts, we concluded that alcohol drinking have significant correlations with industrial accident.
4) Most significant others influencing adolescent workers to drink alcohol were female object such as sisters (accident rate is 84.6%) and mothers (accident rate is 73.17o). The accident rate was also higher level in the alcoholic fathers (56. 95), alcoholic peer groups (55.0%), and alcoholic brothers (51.2%). These findings suggested that alcohol drinking history of peer groups and family members were closely related with the increment of industrial accident.
5) Of 633 cases of adoescent workers, the beer drinking (34. 3%) was most favorite type of alcohol comparing with the Maggulli drinking (32.1%) or the Gin drinking (29.7%). The more were the working adolescent who enjoy to drink too much, the higher probability of industrial accident occured.
6) When asked "why begin driking?", adolescent workers answered that 68.0% of them start to drink to control their emotional conflict such as pleasure-seeking (38. 2 %) and alleviating depression (29.8%). The rest of drinkers drank alcohol in order to enjoy their companionship (26.8%), to relief from psychic tension (17.7%), or to search for masculinity (2.2%). But there was no correlations between the industrial accident and motivation of drinking.
7) Two variables concerning with the attitude toward their drinking, including their attitude toward drunken accident and parental knowledgement of drinking were not correlate with their industrial accident. These findings were supported by the facts that only 28.1% of drinkers parent unaware their children´s drinking, and 22.2% of respondents show permissive attitude toward drunken accident.
8) Of the drunken style among 240 cases of drinkers, the aggressive type was most prevalent drunken style(65.0%). And the rest of types were the social drinking(12. 57o), the withdrawal drinking(10.8%), the melancholic drinking(6.7%), and the hedonic drinking (5.0%) . In the drunken styles, male drinkers tended to exhibit the aggressive drunken style, in contrast with female drinkers who tended to exhibit the hedonic drunken styles. But there was no correlations between their drunken style and industrial accident.
9) Majority of Korean adolescent workers commit many untoward problems due to drinking. These trends were predominantly observed in males who commit various untoward problems due to drinking such as trouble at work, loss of lovers, wanting to participate anti-drinking campaign, going to anyone for help about their drinking. But these untoward problems due drinking were not correlated with the industrial accident. Frequency of alchol intoxication in the working adolescents, their peer group and their family members including father, mother, brothers, sisters were positively correlated with their industrial accident. But there was no correlation between their alcohol drinking patterns and the industrial accident.
Conclusion
Fre4uency of alcohol intoxication of the working adolescents and their surrounding people including peer groups, father, mother brother and sister, were positively correlated with their increment of industrial accident in Korean Society. But there was no significant correlations between alcohol drinking pattern and industrial accident.
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