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KMID : 0870520040080020082
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Journal of Korean Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
2004 Volume.8 No. 2 p.82 ~ p.90
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Psychopathologies, Codependence and Stress Coping Strategy in Wives of Alcohol Dependence Patients
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Jun Won-Hee
Yang Soo
Lee Chung-Tai
Kweon Yong-Sil
Lee Kyoung-Uk
Lee Hae-Kook
Bang Seung-Kyu
Chung Kyoo-In
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Abstract
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Objectives：This study was designed to compare psychopathologies, codependence and stress scoping strategy for assisting the understanding of psychological mechanism and future intervention modalities.
Methods：One hundred and two wives of alcohol dependence patients who were recruited from the department of psychiatry in five general hospitals and one hundred and three healthy subjects participated in this study. The authors used SCL-90-R (Korean Symptom Check List-90-Revision) for the measurement of psychopathologies, CAI (Codependency Assessment Inventory) for codependence and WCSS (Weisman Coping Strategy Scale) for coping ability.
Results： 1) Six symptom dimension scores (somatization, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, additional items and total) in SCL-90-R and CAI scores of the patients’ wives group were significantly higher than those of the control group. 2) In the patients’ wives group, there were significantly positive correlations between seven symptom dimension scores (somatization, obsessive-compulsive, depression, anxiety, hostility, additional items and total) in SCL-90-R and CAI score. 3) In the patients’ wives group, WCSS showed compliance, intellectualism and shared concern to be higher in frequency. Externalization and flexibility were lower in frequency. 4) In the patients’ wives group, depression symptom dimension scores in SCL-90-R were significantly lower in subgroups that used intellectualism, shared concern, isolation and compliance and was significantly higher in subgroups using suppression. 5) In the patients’ wives group, anxiety symptom dimension scores in SCL-90-R were significantly lower in subgroups that used confrontation and compliance.
6) In the patients’ wives group, CAI scores were significantly lower in subgroups that used intellectualism, shared oncern,
confrontation and was significantly higher in subgroups using isolation.
Conclusion：Wives of alcohol dependence patients showed psychopathological problems, higher codependence, and
they used relatively positive coping strategies. This suggests that appropriate intervention modalities that improve coping strategies having positive influence on psychopathologies and codependence are required.
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KEYWORD
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Alcohol dependence, Codependence, Coping strategy
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