A multi-test alcoholic taxonomy: canonical coefficient clusters.
Little convergence has been found in the area of subtyping alcoholic personalities. Prior work has suffered from the use of single inventories, inventories with large distress factors, or inventories that lack broad theoretical appeal. The present work (N = 89) transcends idiosyncratic cluster solutions through the use of canonical correlation of the Basic Personality Inventory and the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. The resulting global canonical variates are cluster analyzed to a six-cluster solution. These subtypes are described through their scores on the canonical variates and the underlying psychometric inventories.
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Department of Psychology, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley 80639.
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D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics