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Aspects of Personal Relationships in Heroin Dependent Young Men–An Experimental Study
Author(s) -
Kaldegg A.
Publication year - 1975
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.1360-0443.1975.tb00038.x
Subject(s) - extraversion and introversion , thematic apperception test , psychology , eysenck personality questionnaire , test (biology) , masculinity , personality , social psychology , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , big five personality traits , psychoanalysis , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Summary The paper presents the results of Eysenck's Personality Inventory (30 cases), of the “Draw a Person” test (40 cases), of If rout's “Personal Preference Scale” (37 cases) and of card 6 BM, “Thematic Apperception Test” (53 cases) given to heroin dependent young men. no statistically significant differences were found in the extraversion‐introversion dimension. The individual addict could be either extra‐ or introverted. The finding of an American study in which the female figure wax drawn first by addicts in the “Draw a Person” test was not validated. On the Krout Scale the addicts scored significantly lower than “normals'” on the “masculinity” scale and significantly higher on the “feminity” scale but in spite of these trends their femininity score did not exceed the masculinity score as was the ease with homosexuals. The TA T stories were thematically different from other clinical groups and some showed preoccupation with death in an unusual way.