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Objectives: This study examined that Drinking aspect and Drinking level of community residents affected differences among related factors. We hope the results of this study would provide the fundamental materials with Alcohol workshop and policy in community. Methods: By stratified quota random sampling, the participants were enrolled 973 adults in 20-50, who live in C city of Gangwon Province. They were surveyed by using AUDIT-K, Perceived Stress Scale, Alcohol Expectancy Scale, and Korean version of the Self-Compassion Scale. For the data analyses, chi-square test and independent sample t-test were used. Results: 33.9% of the participants were hazardous drinkers and 66.1% of them were normal drinkers. According to gender, age, marital status, religion, house type and occupation, hazardous drinking group and normal drinking group showed different frequencies. Drinking level had significant positive correlation with perceived stress, positive alcohol expectancy and negative alcohol expectancy, but drinking level had negative correlation with self-compassion. Hazardous drinking group had high perceived stress level and high positive and negative expectancy to alcohol significantly. At level of self-compassion, hazardous drinking group showed higher level than normal drinking group. Especially, significant differences were showed between two groups in self-judgement, common humanity, isolation and over-identification. Conclusion: This result suggested that self-compassion would be key role in problematic drinking behavior in addition to severe stress and alcohol expectancy.