Aim of this study is to analyze that depression and stress of multicultural family`s adolescents affect problematic drinking and to examine support as moderator effect. This study used 2015 11th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey(KYRBWS) which...
Aim of this study is to analyze that depression and stress of multicultural family`s adolescents affect problematic drinking and to examine support as moderator effect. This study used 2015 11th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey(KYRBWS) which the total sample was consisted of 68,043 adolescents. The sample size for this current study was 771 multicultural family`s adolescents except North Korean defectors. Dependent variable is problematic drinking and independent variables are depression and stress. Moderator variables are family support, friend support and other support. Logistic regression was employed to analyze variables and hierarchical analysis was used to test social support as a moderator between depression and problematic drinking and between stress and problematic drinking. Results of this study showed that multicultural family`s adolescents who were depressed and had family support and friend support were more likely to have problematic drinking. Social support did not moderator the relationship between stress and problematic drinking and the relationship between depression and problematic drinking. But, Friend support do main effect. Based on findings of this study, policy and practice implications for preventing problmeatic drinking among multicultural family`s adolescents were discussed .