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KMID : 0614420120400010031
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Mental Health & Social Work
2012 Volume.40 No. 1 p.31 ~ p.58
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A Study of Problem Drinking on the Conjugal Violence among the Elderly Couples Focused on the Mediating Effect of Depression
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Cho Hye-Chung
Yoon Myeong-Sook
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Abstract
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In the field of domestic violence, there was increasing recognition of the problem of domestic violence against older women. Alcohol use and problem drinking has been associated with an increased risk of domestic violence. With the older population increasing, there was growing recognition of the social problem of violence in marital relationships during old age. However there has been little interest and attention on domestic violence for older battered women. The primary aim of this study was to examine the role of depression as mediator between the problem drinking of older men and conjugal violence. Data from 1st year Korea Welfare Panel were used for the analysis. Subjects in this study consisted of 1,385 male household who aged between 60～74 years old and their wives. The statistical significance was tested by SPSS 18.0, AMOS 18.0. The findings of the study were as follows: First, problem drinking of older males were significantly affected to the conjugal violence to their wives. Second, there was a strong association between problem drinking and depression of older males. Third, depression worked as mediators between the problem drinking and conjugal violence. Based upon these findings we suggest to develop an integrated substance abuse-domestic violence screening system and program. The implications and limitations of these findings were discussed, and directions for future studies were also proposed.
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KEYWORD
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problem drinking of the elderly, conjugal violence, depression, Korea Welfare Panel
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