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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.

The purpose of present study is to investigate that college students' drinking behavior, circadian rhythm, and adjustment for college life such as depression, stress in campus life, and grade-point average. This investigation, furthermore, focus on the differences in their depression, stress in campus life, and grade-point average by circadian rhythm and drinking behavior. The participants were 258 college students (72 males and 186 females) whose ages ranged from 17 to 38 (M=22.69, SD=3.37). The questionnaires and psychological tests used in this research included the following: Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, Circadian Rhythm Questionnaire, Sleep Deprivation Scale, Stress Coping Questionnaire for College Students, and Zung's Self-Rating Depression. Main statistical design was a 2 (drinking) × 2 (circadian rhythm) 2-way MANCOVA. Results revealed that male students drank more alcoholic beverages than female students, while females felt more sleep deprivation than males. There is a significant relationship between doing internet game at night and circadian rhythm for males only. And there is a significant relationship between drinking and circadian rhythm. Students who got high scores in circadian rhythm questionnaire experienced sleep deprivation more than students who got low scores in circadian rhythm questionnaire. Students who got high scores in circadian rhythm had more stress in college life and depressed more than students who got low scores in circadian rhythm. There were 2-way interactions in stress of college life and depression by drinking and circadian rhythm. Simple main effect analysis showed that there were main effects in stress of college life and depression only for students who drink alcohol beverages a lot.

There are many problems related to drinking habits in communities. This study aimed to know the effect to temperance school on communities. This study was performed through analysis of cases. There were 7 cases. The data were collected from April 10, 2003 until July 20, 2003 and analysed according to variable scores. The effect of the temperance school program was observed about practice of moderation in drinking, depression, self-efficacy. This case study shows that the temperance school program might be more effective in intervention for practice of moderation in drinking, depression, self-efficacy which are related to alcohol user. The findings of this study give useful information that good drink habits & sound drink culture will be achieved through nursing intervention program.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between the characteristics of criminals who committed forced crimes and their drinking behavior. The researchers examined differences in family history of alcohol use, recognition of relationship between one's criminal acts and drinking, and problematic drinking. of criminals who committed forced crimes by types of crime. And the researchers examined differences in problematic drinking and drinking motives of criminals with high antisocial trait and criminals with low antisocial trait. The participants were 305 male criminals who committed forced crimes whose ages ranged from 16 to 62 (M=32.23, SD=9.46). The questionnaires and psychological tests used in this research included the following: Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, Cooper’s Revised Drinking Motives Questionnaire, and Personality Disorder Questionnaire-Revised. It was found more family histories of alcohol use in criminals who committed simple forced crimes and rapes than in those who committed burglaries and homicides. And criminals who committed simple forced crimes and rapes recognized their crimes were related with drinking more than those who committed burglaries and homicides. Criminals who committed simple forced crimes experienced problematic drinking more frequently than those who committed burglaries. Criminals who committed forced crimes with low antisocial traits experienced more problematic drinking (dangerous drinking, dependent drinking, and hazardous drinking) and drank with higher drinking motives (social motives, enhancement motives, conformity motives, and coping motives) than Criminals who committed forced crimes with high antisocial traits.