Sociocultural Etiology of Alcoholism- A Qualitative Study in Taiwan
| Autor: | Hung-Hui Liu, 劉鴻徽 |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 87 The purposes of the present qualitative study were to find about common and native sociocultural alcoholism etiology, to reevaluate the criteria of alcoholism, and to reevaluate the timing of labeling alcoholism. The study was executed by means of iterative literature review and interviewing seven alcoholics. The subjects were sampled purposely from a private institution and private introduction. The interviews were guided by the researcher and the contents of the interviews were focused on the subjects'' drinking behaviors, including: drinking history, being labeled alcoholic processes, experiences on quiting from alcohol addiction. The features of families, societies, and generations which subjects went through during growing up, the world outlook, and so forth were also noted in this study. In addition, the author contrasted his knowledge of alcoholism with the subjects'' explanations of the change in drinking behaviors that included the drinking behaviors learned from societies, the rewards resulted from drinking, the changes in interactions between subjects and their societies since being labeled, the difficulties in defeating alcohol addiction, and the influences from societies, culture, and sociocultural change. Finally, to validate the credibility of the empirical study, the author compared the main themes of this study with those found in literature. The major findings of this qualitative study were as following: the sociocultural indulgent attitude toward alcohol drinking is one of main factors in influence on learning to drink, and of environmental factors in forming alcoholism; the nagative cycle of interaction between the problematical family and deviant behaviors causes someone to develop alcohol drinking to cope with psychosocial stress; the studies of female sociocultural alcoholism etiology should examine the sociocultural variables that may compell women to develop unyielding personality and may provoke oppression to women in a patriarchical society. Furtherly, the concepts of "alcoholic spiral" and "dual spiral" can form a thinking framework about sociocultural alcoholism etiology, and evaluating alcoholic problems through the concepts of "alcoholic spiral" can be easier to solve the ploblems of what the criteria of alcoholism should be, and what the timing of labeling alcoholism is. |
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