The Enlightenment of the Research on the Relationship between Residents' Drinking and Emotional and Spiritual Problems

This paper analyses people who are aged 50, living in three communities of Kunming, and its theme is to find out the relations between old residents’ drinking and emotional and mental problems in present situation. The study of the influences of such residents’ drinking frequency, quantity, type, age of starting drinking, drinking age on emotional and mental problems, comes to the conclusion that can be useful for community health service centers and related health ways of life, and the education sector to provide the theoretical basis and policy support. In this study, 1039 residents aged 50 and above in three communities of tangshuang, yiyuan and jinjiang road in Kunming city were selected as subjects by using the whole group sampling method. They were investigated by questionnaire survey from two aspects: drinking situation, emotional and mental problems. The final conclusion is that frequency, quantity, type of drinking, age of starting drinking and age of abstaining are not the influencing factors of emotional and mental problems, and there is no correlation between drinking and residents' emotional and mental problems. The Suggestions for dealing with adverse events related to alcohol consumption are put forward.