This study examined the relationship between alcohol and individual difference factors on one hand and marital aggression on the other hand. Subjects were 320 married and cohabiting men who participated in a nationally representative study of alcohol consumption in young men. Subjects completed scales assessing hostility, self-consciousness, and marital satisfaction, and the Alcohol Dependence Scale (ADS). They also answered two questions concerning marital aggression: whether they had ever hit their spouse while drinking or hit their spouse while sober. The results indicated that alcohol use was strongly related to marital aggression. Furthermore, scores on the ADS interacted with hostility and marital satisfaction to predict marital aggression, with ADS scores related to marital aggression among men who scored high on hostility or low on marital satisfaction.

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9 physicians discussed their experiences with alcoholics in tape-recorded interviews. Feelings and attitudes conveyed in doctors' speech were related to their success in referring alcoholic patients for treatment to a special clinic. 10 judges (5 male, S female) rated the interview material presented normally (unfiltered tape recording) ; 10 rated it presented in a "tone-only" condition (content-filtered tape recording); and 10 rated it in a "content-only" condition (typed transcripts). Doctors judged less angry in the tone-only condition and more anxious in the normal condition were more successful in referring alcoholics for further treatment.

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