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Excessive drinking and significant others
Author(s) -
HOLMILA MARJA
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0959-5236
DOI - 10.1080/09595239400185561
Subject(s) - feeling , perspective (graphical) , phenomenon , psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , epistemology , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science
This paper sets out to examine the experience of being a significant other by first discussing the existing notions and research traditions of the phenomenon. In the light of survey data it is shown that drinking problems are not only met within the circle of the nuclear family, or between the spouses. This approach presents an alternative perspective to that, which focuses on the relationship between the drinking male and the “co‐dependent” female. There are also feelings of responsibility and concern between alcoholics and their close male relatives, colleagues and friends. Comparison between the male and female experience of being a significant other is taken as a goal for further research. [Holmila M. Excessive drinking and significant others. Drug Alcohol Rev 1994;13:431–436]