Scores of alcoholics on the sixteen personality factor questionnaire

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1 df E sqs ms F 1 df E sqs ms F 31.15 10.38 .27 298 11,252.82 37.76 i 3 290 20,488.84 l 3 301 11,283.97 89.15 29.71 .43 296 20,399.69 68.91 Among S Within S Totalaffected by the inclusion of hostility items and that the MHS scores are not affected by the inclusion of anxiety items. Also neither scale score seems to be affected any differently whether it is neutral items that are included or items from the other scale. These results suggest that combining subscales or adding neutral items has no effect on the responses to either scale. REFERENCES 1. FELDMAN, M. J. and SIEGEL, S. M. The effect, on self description of combining anxiety and 2. SIEGEL, S. M. The relationship of hostility to authoritarianism. J. a b n o m . SOC. Psychol., 1956, 3. TAYLOR, JANET A. A personality scale of manifest anxiety. J . abnorm. SOC. Psychol., 1953, 48, hostility items on a single scale. PROBLEM AND PROCEDUREThe present study attempts to discriminate between the "alcoholic person lity" and the general population using the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 P. F.).(l)The data for this investigation are based on profiles drawn at random from the hospital records of alcoholic in-patients, all residents of Davidson County, Tennessee, committed to the hospital for a period of sixty days by the county court. Commitment results after all other resources have failed and represents a relatively complete failure on the part of the individual to adapt to his problems.The sample consists of sixty-nine male subjects between the ages of thirty and fifty-five, whose average education is approximately nine years. Reading comprehension was required for the examination.The hypothesis is that our obtained means do not differ significantly from those of the general population reported by the authors of the test for each of the sixteen factors. The tests were two tailed since each direction of deviation has a separate and distinct meaning, with Alpha set a t .05. The authors of the test have published norms for both males and females separately. Naturally, our results are tested against their male norms.1This study was made possible by a grant from the Tennessee Alcoholic Commission. Acknowledgment is due to its chairman, Judge Henry P. Todd, and to the superintendant of the Davidson County Hospital, Dr. Joseph J. Baker.

Personality traits in people addicted to alcohol raised by parents with alcohol dependence

“…It should be also emphasized that the results obtained by the women addicted to alcohol who were raised by parents with alcohol dependence strictly correspond to the features of people with alcohol dependence reported in literature; including inter alia: negative self-image, low self-esteem, worse adaptation skills, higher self-criticism [19][20][21], less responsibility, lack of self-confidence, fear of establishing interpersonal relations, hostility towards other people, low need for achievement, order, perseverance, domination; understanding of oneself and of other people, greater need for support and subordination [19,20,22,23], greater suspiciousness, tendency to blame oneself and others, lower self-control, greater impulsivity [24][25][26], reacting in stressful situation with isolation from the surrounding environment [27][28][29][30], consumption of alcohol [31] and also greater aggression [32].…”