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A failure to find empirical support for Beardslee and Vaillant's prediction about alcoholism
Author(s) -
Acevedo Alberto,
Elder Ivan,
Harrison Andrew
Publication year - 1988
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(198809)44:5<837::aid-jclp2270440530>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - personality , correlation , psychology , clinical psychology , positive correlation , chronic alcoholic , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , geometry , mathematics
Abstract Recent studies have proposed that the personality pathology in alcoholics in probably a result, not a cause, of alcohol intake. Thus, 19 male alcoholic veterans were assessed to determine whether there was a positive correlation between personality pathology and lifetime amount of absolute alcohol consumed. A multiple regression analysis of the data showed that there was no evidence for a statistically significant positive correlation between the lifetime amount of absolute alcohol consumed and personality pathology. The only statistically significant correlation found was a negative correlation between personality pathology and age, a finding consistent with some other recent studies.