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This study was conducted to examine aspects of middle and high school students' drinking with
analysis of related factors. The subjects of this study was 540 students in Kyungbuk(Gumi and
Kimcheon city). Data were collected from July, 2002 to September, 2002.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows.
1. 28.4% of the girl students experienced drinking, while 37.2% of the boy students experienced it.
46.7% of the students at vocational schools experienced drinking, while 16.0% of the students at
academic schools experienced it. 21.0% of the middle school students experienced drinking and 38.0% of the high school students experienced it. The drinking rate was significantly high in the groups of boy students, students at vocational schools, the lower economic class.
2. 32.1% of respondents who lived parents experienced drinking and 20.5% of them who lived with
grandparents and parents experienced it. The drinking rate of the students who lived in the large family was lowest.
3. 34.6% of the respondents who experienced drinking felt stress, while 24.0% of them did not feel
stress. In the case of satisfaction level with school life, while 51.4% of them was unsatisfied with it.
The drinking rate was significantly different by stress feeling level and satisfaction level with school life.
4. 90.4% of the respondents who had lots of agonies drank twice a month. Among the drinking rates related to main agonies, love problem wan highest (51.9%). Family disharmony was 46.8% and poor economic condition was 46.2%.
5. The factors significantly affecting drinking experience were school grade, satisfaction level with
family life and school life, schoolmate relation, and exercise.
From above results, it can be concluded that the students' drinking is a serious problems which can not be resolved by simple approaches because it is interrelated complicatedly with gender, grade, family, school, etc. Schools, related organizations, and the government must closely work together to maximize the effectiveness of policy implementation concerning the drinking problem of the middle and high school students.