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Gomberg, Edith S. Lisansky – 1984
Alcohol studies, like most psychological studies, have traditionally focused on males. Several psychosocial theories have been used to explain male alcoholism, including dependency, the power drive, and sex role theory. This latter stance may provide a theoretical framework for the etiology of drinking which will apply to both sexes; however,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Alcoholism, Behavior Theories, Drinking
Abbott, Max W. – 1983
While alcoholism is no longer regarded as a unitary disorder, conventional measures of congition and personality have yet to be shown capable of consistently predicting clinical outcomes. To investigate cognitive dysfunction and locus of control as predictors of post treatment outcome in a large sample of alcoholics, 106 alcoholics (74 men, 32…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcoholism, Cognitive Processes, Group Therapy
Kivlahan, Daniel R.; And Others – 1983
Recent approaches to empirical derivation and validation of alcoholic subtypes which involve cluster analysis wihin a single multivariate assessment domain have been questioned. To investigate more clinically meaningful subtypes in a sample of 245 male alcoholics, cluster analysis was performed on a combination of variables from four assessment…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping
Brown, Sandra A. – 1983
Alcoholism research has independently focused on background characteristics and alcohol-related expectations, e.g., social and physical pleasure, reduced tension, and increased assertiveness, as important variables in identifying high risk individuals. To assess the utility of alcohol reinforcement expectations as predictors of drinking patterns,…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, Background, Behavior Patterns
Download full textEllis, Barbara Gray, Ed. – 1982
This workshop report presents excerpts of the panel discussions of 10 distinguished family researchers considering the feasibility of joint studies across the three Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration Institutes (the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Behavior Problems, Drug Abuse, Family Characteristics
Truckenmiller, James L. – 1982
Recent national surveys have found marked increases in the use of illicit drugs and alcohol among adolescents. To investigate differential prediction of alcohol versus hard drug use amoung youths, 6% of the youths, aged 10-19, from a Pennsylvania county school system (N=1,689) were assessed on the HEW Community Youth Program Impact Scales. The 12…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Delinquency, Drug Abuse
