An Analytical Study on the Correlation Between Alcohol Abuse and Domestic Violence: Focusing on Straus’ Conflict Management Behavior

Abstract

This study viewed conflict management behavior as a process of changing conflict into controllable situations or facilitating conflict resolution and attempted to reveal the correlation between alcohol abuse and domestic violence through empirical research and seek changes in conflict management behavior through integrated interventions for these two issues.The main findings are as follows.First, 51.4% of violent offenders who committed at least one act of domestic violence in the past year were alcoholics.This proves that there is a close correlation between drinking and domestic violence.Second, among domestics violence offenders, there were significant differences between the alcoholic and non-alcoholic groups in terms of conflict management behaviors such as "throwing things" or "pushing hard" (p=0.0001),"kicking and punching" (p=0.021), and "beating someone without mercy" (p=0.007).Third, among socioeconomic factors, there was a significant difference between the alcoholic and non-alcoholic groups in the "family-type" and "economic status" of domestic violence offenders.The following suggestions were made based on the results of the study.First, Intervention agencies should be capable of providing integrated services for alcohol abuse and domestic violence.Second, a continuous system establishment is required.Third, in terms of conflict management behavior, countermeasures, specific guidelines, and treatment support measures for alcohol and domestic violence should be legislated.Fourth, considering Korea's drinking cultural characteristics, the simultaneous incidence of drinking and domestic violence in conflict management behavior, demographic characteristics of domestic violence offenders with drinking problems, patterns of violence under the influence of alcohol.