Living with an alcoholic partner: Problems faced and coping strategies used by wives of alcoholic clients

Sharma, Nitasha; Sharma, Seema; Ghai, Sandhya; Basu, Debasis; Kumari, Deepika; Singh, Dharamveer; Kaur, Gagandeep

doi:10.4103/0972-6748.196053

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“…However, previous studies have found that uncontrolled consumption of alcohol can affect how a man performs his duties as a father. Sharma et al (2016) have shown that a father who engages in excessive consumption of alcohol may be prone to numerous errors in the manner he conducts himself and may even neglect some of his family responsibilities. As most of the fathers were unmarried and, therefore, uncommitted, they were prone to keeping multiple concurrent partners, with its devastating consequences; a finding that is congruent with those by Richter et al (2010) and Mercer (2015).…”

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Crises impacting South African men’s participation in early socio-education development of children and possible useful interventions

Okeke

2017

South African Journal of Psychology

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The objective of this study was to establish the factors that hinder men from actively participating in the early socio-education development of their children. An exploratory sequential design and semistructured interviews were used to engage 25 purposively sampled fathers who live in communities within the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. Qualitative data were analysed through analytic induction and grounded theorising and presented descriptively. Coleman’s social capital theory provided the theoretical lenses that enabled an understanding of men’s crises that impacted the rationale for the nature of the interventions suggested in this article. Findings indicate that participants experienced extreme crises that impeded their ability to genuinely participate in early socio-education development of their children. Fathers reported experiencing huge crises, some of which appeared self-imposed. The social system that immensely stereotypes men appeared to further deepen their crises, which resulted in their inability to contribute to children’s socio-education development. Most current explanatory models on men’s participatory experiences in children’s early social development are largely deficient, derogatory, and recriminatory. The author suggests that such interpretive models may be counterproductive. If fathers are to genuinely contribute to children’s socio-education development, father-specific support programmes must be put in place. Some helpful interventions have been suggested.

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Crises impacting South African men’s participation in early socio-education development of children and possible useful interventions

Okeke

2017

South African Journal of Psychology

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“…The third commonly used strategy was withdrawal coping, and the styles commonly used were avoidance (25%) and reporting that they tried getting on their own as their coping mechanism (23%). [ 20 ]…”

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Resilience in Wives of persons with Alcoholism: An Indian exploration

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Sudevan

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Indian J Psychiatry

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Context:Mental health has currently shifted focus from “deficit” to strength-based approaches such as Resilience. Coping styles and personality factors have been well studied in Wives of persons with Alcoholism (WopA) but not Resilience. Alcohol dependence in spouse is seen as an adversity.Aims:To evaluate Resilience in the WopA and explore its relationship with marital quality and clinical variables of Alcohol Dependence in their husbands.Settings and Design:A cross-sectional study in a tertiary care hospital in Bangalore, Karnataka.Subjects and Methods:WopA (n=34) between 25–55 years, were assessed for Resilience using Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA), while marital quality was assessed using Marital Quality Scale (MQS). The Severity of Alcohol Dependence, Age of onset of Initiation, Age of onset of Problem Drinking, and Age of onset of Dependence were evaluated in their husbands.Statistical Analysis:Independent sample t-test, Chi-square test, and Pearson's correlation were used.Results:Majority of the WopA (82%) scored low on the RSA. Low Resilience (LR) WopA scored significantly lower on all factors of RSA except the perception of future; in comparison to High Resilience (HR) WopA. Additionally, the LR WopA reported significantly poorer marital quality.Conclusions:Most WopA had low Resilience. LR WopA also had significantly poor marital quality. These findings need to be studied further in a larger population with culturally appropriate scales. The low scoring Resilience factors amongst WopA may be utilized in strength-based psychotherapeutic approaches. There is a need to improve the understanding of Resilience and its assessment in this population.

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“…The study findings show that most of the women had faced problems in multiple domains and the majority of them were having emotional problems and only few of them reported the problems of physical violence. Coping strategies used by wives of alcoholics were reported in three major styles: engaged, tolerant and withdrawal 9 .…”

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Quality of Life of Wives of Alcoholics

2020

IJPHRD

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Background: Alcoholism is a common problem both in developing as well as developed countries. It leads significant harm to the physical, psychological and social health of individuals, families and communities as a whole. Wives of the alcoholics are the persons who suffer the consequences of alcoholism and its effects the most.Objective: To assess the quality of life of wives of alcoholics. Materials and Method:Quantitative approach with descriptive survey research design was adopted in the study. Total 150 men residing at Mangalore and Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district were administered the AUDIT tool through house to house survey, of which 132 men who scored 8 to 10 were taken as alcoholics and their wives were selected as participants through purposive sampling technique. Participant information sheet and informed consent was obtained. The data was gathered by using WHOQOL-BREF tool to assess the quality of life.Results: Shows that mean quality of life score of wives of alcoholics in physical domain (11.73), psychological (9.43), social (5.04) and environmental (13.10) respectively. The chi-square test shows that there is a highly significant association between QOL scores of subjects and selected variables such as income of family (p ≤ 0.001) and number of children (p ≤ 0.018). Conclusion:The study findings revealed that wives of alcoholics are having poor quality of life. Hence need to adopt effective interventions to promote the wellbeing of the wives of alcoholics and to improve their quality of life.

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Living with an alcoholic partner: Problems faced and coping strategies used by wives of alcoholic clients

Cited by 26 publications

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Crises impacting South African men’s participation in early socio-education development of children and possible useful interventions

Crises impacting South African men’s participation in early socio-education development of children and possible useful interventions

Resilience in Wives of persons with Alcoholism: An Indian exploration

Quality of Life of Wives of Alcoholics

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