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KMID : 0870519980020010108
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Journal of Korean Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
1998 Volume.2 No. 1 p.108 ~ p.120
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Effect of Parental Drinking on Children of Alcoholic Parents - Mainly on the Characteristics of Children of Alcoholic Parents -
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Hwang Hye-Soon
Chang Hwan-Il
Kim Kyung-Bin
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Abstract
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Children of alcoholics (COA) suffer a variety of problems related to the drinking problems of parents. The author studied
characteristics of 42 children of alcoholic parents (who had been diagnosed and treated in mental hospital) and 80
children of problem drinkers (scores over 13 by The Korean Version of the Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CASTK)). They were compared with 80 children who did not have alcoholic parents by means of questionnaire survey. They were middle and high school students. The results were as follows： The problem of alcohol drinking was not significantly different between COA and those of non-drinkers. But the incidence of frequent and excessive drinking among the children of problem drinkers was significantly higher than those of non-drinkers. The age of beginning smoking in COA was later than those of non-drinkers. But the rate and amount of smoking, and the rate of nicotine addiction were higher than those of nondrinkers. There were only 3 children who abused drugs in children of problem drinkers. So, there were no significant differences between two groups. But high risk for future drug problems was found in COA by questionnaire survey (The Screening Test for High Risk Group of Adolescent Drug Users). COA showed tendency to have low educated alcoholic father, low educated and excessive alcohol drinking mother than those of non-drinkers. COA had no healthy hobbies. COA showed tendency to have many opposite sex friends. They seemed to want opposite sex friends by whom their past difficult life could be compensated. Their interpersonal relationships and school performance were poor. They had attached more in hair staining, riding auto bicycle, curiosity to mind altering drug than children of non-drinkers. COA didn’t have adquate coping strategy during adolescence. And they exposed to more stress than those of non-drinkers. They had experienced frustration and depression when the things was not good. They had a tendency to be more sensitive and insecure. They frequently expressed feeling of anger of yelled. But they had difficulty in expressing their own feeling. They felt that their character had been changed from good to bad one during adolescence. There were significant differences between COA and those of non-drinkers. COA showed more compulsive money expense, overeating, over sleep, compulsive exercise than those of non-drinkers. And they felt fatigue, pain, cough, sputum and dyspnea more frequently. Alcoholic parents showed more problematic behavior, such as verbal and physical abuse, gambling, and sexual problem. COA showed higher rate of runaway, problem behavior including school and legal problems, and problem friends. Alcoholic parents showed more verbal and physical violence, and COA also showed more verbal and physical violence than those of non-drinkers. COA had more tendency to be involved in accidents and stealing.
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KEYWORD
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Drinking, Effect, Parent, Children, Characteristics
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