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Dimensions of self‐actualization and posttreatment alcohol use in fully and in partly recovered alcoholics
Author(s) -
Cernovsky Zdenek
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198307)39:4<628::aid-jclp2270390431>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - psychology , feeling , clinical psychology , transactional analysis , orientation (vector space) , transactional leadership , psychotherapist , social psychology , geometry , mathematics
Contacted 46 alcoholics I year upon discharge from a residential treatment program based primarily on transactional analysis. Twenty‐five reported to be fully abstinent for the 1‐year follow‐up, and the other 21 reported that they were not drinking heavily. Correlational analysis of the relationship of reported alcohol use to responses on the Personal Orientation Inventory at the I‐year follow‐up suggested that the abstinent persons had somewhat higher self‐esteem and were slightly freer in expression of feeling.