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Young and old alcoholics: Some personality differences
Author(s) -
Delatte Joseph G.,
Delatte Gale M.
Publication year - 1984
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(198403)40:2<613::aid-jclp2270400240>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - psychoticism , psychology , neuroticism , paranoia , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , mania , clinical psychology , psychiatry , population , personality , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , extraversion and introversion , big five personality traits , bipolar disorder , cognition , demography , social psychology , sociology
Ninety‐one alcoholic males aged 20–65 completed the MMPI. Their T scores on 10 clinical scales and 3 other indices were correlated with age. Seven of 13 correlations were statistically significant. There was a significant negative correlation between age and psychopathic deviance, paranoia, schizophrenia, and mania, and there was a significant positive correlation between age and hypochondriasis. Goldberg's indices showed that younger alcoholics' profiles resembled those of a sociopathic population as opposed to a psychiatric population and tended toward psychoticism rather than neuroticism. Results can assist practitioners in understanding and planning for a young clientele.