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THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON THE PERSONALITY INVENTORY
Author(s) -
Abramson Harold A.
Publication year - 1946
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1946.tb31685.x
Subject(s) - personality , citation , annals , psychology , social psychology , library science , computer science , history , classics
It is a great pleasure to present to this Section the results of studies made with the Inventory of Hathaway and McKinley' during the past two years. In the pre-war days of leisurely, private practice of medicine, it was often possible to give as much time as necessary to the gentle exploration of the conflicts in our patients. However laudable and desirable an extended technic may be, B short met,hod which leads to a useful psychosomatic history is of great value in peace-time, as well as in war-time, medicine. That such a short method may be found in the Minnesota Inventory is indicated by the data to be presented. Although this paper deals, primarily, with the results of experiments originally designed to study the effects of moderate doses of alcohol on the personality inventory, the clinical results have definite bearing on the validity of the test itself. The defects in the present tentative test procedure do not particularly invalidate our results. The way in which the test was used here was more or less self-controlling, because the same individuals were used repeatedly, with each individual serving as his own control.