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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to find out the criminals' motivation of drinking. Method: For achieving the purpose, drinking motivation questionnaire developed by Cooper et al.(1992) was used. The questionnaire has 4 sub categories which were social, enhancement, conformity & coping motives. The subjects of this study were 1,005 criminals from Uijeongbu Public Prosecutors Office, Korea. For analysis, frequency, percentage, ANOVA, and scheffe test were done by SPSS 10.0 win program. Results; The mean of social motive was 2.04, enhancement motive 1.51, conformity motive 1.52, coping motive 1.78 & total motives mean was 1.72. The
significant differences of motivations of drinking according to the general characteristics of criminals were like that. Drinking motive was significantly high between over 28 to 42 age groups than below 27 age group.
According to religion, catholic was significant high than other religious group. Among the ages of start to drink, below 13 age group was significantly high than over 20.