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A SOCIOPSYCHIATRIC STUDY OF ADOLESCENT WORKERS —THE FAMILY ENVIRONMENTㅡ

The present research was performed to identify any characteristics of adolescent workers’ family environments and to use them as a basic material for total adolescent workers’ mental health. The data were obtained from worker groups of various ages with questionnaire method. The subjects were consisted of 393 male and female workers of age ranged from 12 to 21, working at four factories in the suburbs of Seoul in Sept. of 1978. The summary of the results are as follow. 1. In the parents’ educational level, “Under primary school” and “Primary school” groups were most common (father； 52.1%, mother； 73.1% ), and this tendency of the parents’ low educational level is positively related with the adolescent workers of lower educational level and from rural area. 2. In the parents’ occupation, “Occupation requiring simple skill” was most common in fathers (69.5%) and “Unemployed” in mothers (78.4%) respectively. 3. The most common main source of family income was “Father” (64.6%), “Mother” (10. 996), “Adolescent worker” (0.8%), “The other siblings or relatives” (23.796). As in the adolescent workers’ educational level, higher the workers’ educational level, more the cases of “Mother” and lower the workers’ educational level, more the cases of “Father” in the main source of family income. 4. More than half of the adolescent workers live separated from their families, whose main resident places are “Cooking for oneself” or Lodging” (65.796). 5. The family problems that the workers recognize was most commonly “Economic problem” (50.6%). And also, “Economic problem” was considerasly ably common in the reasons of temporary parental separation (31.0%), and this tendency was more prominent among the workers from “Seoul” and of lower educational level. 6. The most common parental marital bonds in their family dynamics were “Accepting parent” (36.4%), “Marital skew” (30. 0%), and “Alcoholic bond” (16.5%). As in the sexual difference, “Marital skew” was most common in male workers, whereas “Accepting parent” was most common in female workers.