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Do men with excessive alcohol consumption and social stability have an addictive personality?
Author(s) -
BERGLUND KRISTINA,
ROMAN ERIKA,
BALLDIN JAN,
BERGGREN ULF,
ERIKSSON MATTS,
GUSTAVSSON PETTER,
FAHLKE CLAUDIA
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00872.x
Subject(s) - personality , psychology , population , addiction , normative , consumption (sociology) , clinical psychology , alcohol consumption , alcohol , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , environmental health , social science , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , epistemology , sociology
Berglund, K., Roman, E., Balldin, J., Berggren, U., Eriksson, M., Gustavsson, P. & Fahlke, C. (2011). Do men with excessive alcohol consumption and social stability have an addictive personality? Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 52 , 257–260. The existence of an “addictive” personality has been extensively debated. The current study investigated personality in male individuals with excessive alcohol consumption ( n = 100) in comparison to a population‐based control group ( n = 131). The individuals with excessive alcohol consumption were recruited by advertisements in a regional daily newspaper and controls from a population based Swedish Twin Registry. Personality was assessed by the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP). Comparisons were made with normative data. Furthermore, by using a multivariate projection‐based approach (Principal Component Analysis; PCA), hidden structures of traits and possible relationships among the individuals with excessive consumption and the controls was investigated. The individuals with excessive alcohol consumption as well as the controls had mean values within the normative range in all scales of the KSP. Moreover, the PCA analysis revealed no systematic between‐group separation. Taken together, this result demonstrates that male individuals with excessive alcohol consumption do not have a personality different from that of a general population, which supports the notion of no “addictive personality”.