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Evidence for Distinctive Personality Traits in Alcoholics
Author(s) -
Cowan Lawrence,
Auld Frank,
Bégin Paul E.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1974.tb01304.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , big five personality traits , test (biology) , clinical psychology , personality test , developmental psychology , psychometrics , social psychology , test validity , paleontology , biology
Summary A picture‐preference test designed to measure ten traits believed to characterize alcoholics was administered to 106 alcoholics, 15 neurotics, and 80 normals. As predicted, alcoholics had higher scores on this test than normals or neurotics. The mean score of the neurotics was virtually the same as the mean of the normals. Whatever is measured by this test reliably distinguishes alcoholics from both neurotics and normals.