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KMID : 1022120070090010047
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Health and Welfare
2007 Volume.9 No. 1 p.47 ~ p.67
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Affecting Factors on Aggression of Alcoholic Inpatients in Psychiatric Hospitals
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Cho Won-Jun
Lee Key-Hyo
Kim Won-Joong
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to examine affecting factors on aggression of alcoholic inpatients in psychiatric hospitals. and to propose implications for the effective treatment to their aggressiveness. For this, self-esteem, depression of alcoholic patients, and social supports were investigated. Data were collected from 156 alcoholic patients of the mental hospitals in the city of Susan and Kyong-Nam province. The major results are as follows;
First. ANOVA analysis shows that aggressiveness behaviors are significantly higher among higher income groups.
Second, regression analysis shows that self-esteem and income levels significantly affect aggressive behaviors: the higher self-esteem, the lower level of aggressiveness and the lower income level, the lower level of aggressiveness.
These results imply that it is important to increase their self-esteem during their treatment and counsel ing to decrease patient"s aggressiveness. The result that the income level affects aggressiveness indicates that individual treatments depending on their social status and circumstances are needed.
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KEYWORD
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alcoholic patient, aggressiveness, self-esteem, social supports, depression
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