| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 醫學研究所 === 93 === ABSTRACT
The purpose of the present qualitative study was to explore urban indigenous adolescents’ drinking behaviors by the method of in-depth interview. In addition, this study also explored these adolescents’ social construction and the process of drinking behaviors. Snowball sampling method was employed in order to select subjects, and total 12 adolescent were interviewed. The interviews were guided and focusing on their drinking behaviors, including the reasons why they moved from their hometown, their impression of events happening in Taipei, their acclimation for school and life, other people’s viewpoints for drinking behaviors, and their own drinking experiences and process. The result of the research found that these subjects had gotten used to urban life after they moved from their hometown to Taipei city, the maladjusted phenomenon did not show when they moved from rural area to urban area. In school life, they thought the homework is difficult and too much and the teachers are more serious. Furthermore, some subjects thought their teachers do not care about them enthusiastically, and some of them also have the deviation behaviors at school. Besides, their families acquiesced in their drinking behaviors, and even some parents let them drink as well. During the harvest festival, it is also considered as an impolite behavior if adolescent refused the wine served by elder generation.
Urban indigenous adolescents duplicate the drinking custom from their hometown to their urban life. Parents and their children have the same concept of “drinking a little bit is fine.” However, they do not have the definition of “a little bit” The drinking issue is still a taboo for these urban indigenous adolescents. To their points, not only indigenous people drink but also the Han people drink. In fact, some Han people also like to drink with them, and even some subjects thought that Han people drink a lot as well.
In conclusion, drinking behaviors to these urban indigenous adolescents is to copy their past hometown culture or a way to oppose the traditional ethic. We have to care more about these adolescents in educational level and introspect the labeling of the mainstream culture to their behaviors.
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