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Relationships between age of onset, antisocial history and general psychopathological traits in Japanese alcoholics
Author(s) -
Matsuoka Keiko,
Kim Yoshiharu,
Toshida Shuta,
Ohshima Nobuyori
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2000.00730.x
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychopathology , psychology , antisocial personality disorder , extraversion and introversion , clinical psychology , psychopathy , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , age of onset , multivariate analysis , big five personality traits , psychiatry , personality , poison control , injury prevention , medicine , social psychology , environmental health , disease
This study investigated the relationships of age of onset, antisocial history and general psychopathological traits measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) in Japanese alcoholics ( n = 84). A 2 (earlier vs later onset) × 2 (antisocial vs non‐antisocial) multivariate analysis of covariance showed that age of onset had a significant correlation with some subscales of the MMPI such as L (lie), Sc (schizophrenia), and Si (social introversion), whereas history of antisocial behavior had no significant correlation with any MMPI clinical subscales. This result indicated that age of onset was a more significant variable than was antisocial history with regard to the current general psychopathological traits on MMPI in Japanese alcoholics.