title: A psychosocial comparison of drunken drivers and alcoholics.
abstract: A self-administered questionnaire was used to compare selected demographic, drinking and psychosocial variables of 306 convicted drunken drivers with those of 289 alcoholics and 269 controls. The drunken-driver group fell between the other groups on many parameters but resembled the control group on as many others.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication; D000437:Alcoholism; D001334:Automobile Driving; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003710:Demography; D003863:Depression; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan; D010260:Paranoid Personality Disorder; D010551:Personality; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage; D012649:Self Concept; D012928:Social Desirability; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013405:Suicide
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations