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Consistency of Reported Levels of Alcohol‐related Problems in the Community
Author(s) -
RITSON BRUCE,
PECK DAVID
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1989.tb00762.x
Subject(s) - consistency (knowledge bases) , variety (cybernetics) , feeling , degree (music) , psychology , population , mathematics , social psychology , statistics , medicine , environmental health , geometry , physics , acoustics
Summary Regular drinkers identified in a general population survey of adults in the Lothian region were followed up 3 or 4 years later, with respect to alcohol‐related problems. Using a variety of analytic methods, a moderate degree of temporal consistency in problems was found, for total number of problems, and for individual problems, with feeling ashamed of having done something while drunk being the most consistent.