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KMID : 0614420090310010100
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Mental Health & Social Work
2009 Volume.31 No. 1 p.100 ~ p.135
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A Study on the Sociocultural Factors Affecting to Gender Difference of the Prevalence of Men and Women Alcoholics
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Kim Yoon-Ok
Park Ji-Yeon
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to investigate how differently the sociocultural factors affecting men, women Alcoholics, and What Sociocultural factors contributing to difference of prevalence rate in the alcohol use disorders. As a perspective associated with alcohol drinking, sociocultural point of view is social control theory, sub-cultural theory, the theory of social interaction. All three of these theories as a whole to be assembled to address sociocultural factors are effective. In three theory, sociocultural factors are extracted. Those are the social support, drinking culture, social network, and the social pressure. The research is based on the purposive sampling and surveyed on the men, women Alcoholics. They are belonging to the hospital, rehabilitation facilities of men, women Alcoholics in Seoul, Gyeonggi, Incheon in Korea. It was hard to reach face to face. So social support scale, acceptance scale of drinking culture, the social network scale, a measure of social pressure are answered by their own report. The questionnaires were sent by mail to the social workers. Lastly 100 men, 58 women of collected data were used in analysis. The data have been analysed by the statistic program of SPSS for Window Release 12.0. Descriptive statistical method is used to examine the population characteristics, clinical characteristics of men, women Alcoholics and t-test is used to examine the comparison sex with sociocultural factors and simple correlation analysis is used to examine sociocultural factors and sex. Finally, discriminant analysis is used to examine how the sociocultural factors affect men, women Alcoholics and what sociocultural factors contribute to devide the sex group. Analysis result can be summarized as followings ; It’s different to ’relationship size’ ’a number of drinking person in network’ as a social network of the sub-factors and ’social pressure’ between Men and women Alcoholics. However, Two factors are divided into two group(men Alcoholics, women Alcoholics) ; ’a number of drinking person in network’, ’social pressure’. Other factors are abandoned. The major findings of this study can be summarized as followings ; Ultimately, In sociocultural perspective, ’a number of drinking person in network’ and ’social pressure’ contribute to the prevalence rate of men, women Alcoholics difference.(Men Alcoholics are three times more than women Alcoholics)
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KEYWORD
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Alcohol use disorders, Sociocultural factor, prevalence rate, Gender difference
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