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Risk for alcoholism, antisocial behavior, and response perseveration
Author(s) -
Giancola Peter R.,
Peterson Jordan B.,
Pihl Robert O.
Publication year - 1993
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(199305)49:3<423::aid-jclp2270490317>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - perseveration , psychology , antisocial personality disorder , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , poison control , injury prevention , psychiatry , medical emergency , cognition , medicine
Numerous studies have demonstrated the existence of an association between alcoholism and antisocial personality (ASP). The present study tested two hypotheses: First, that nonalcoholic men with a multigenerational familial history (MGH) of alcoholism would play more cards on a card task that has been shown previously to differentiate antisocial populations from normals and, second, that MGH subjects would display more evidence of ASP on two personality questionnaires: The Self‐Report Psychopathy scale and the Socialization scale of the California Psychological Inventory. A total of 28 subjects (14 MGH and 14 family history negative for alcoholism [FH–]) were employed in this study. MGH subjects played significantly more cards during the card task than did FH‐subjects. However, the two groups did not differ on the ASP questionnaires. The possibility that a subtle frontal‐lobe deficit, rather than ASP per se, underlies the poorer performance of the MGH males is discussed.