The prediction of drug dependence from expectancy for hostility while intoxicated.
Three hundred seventy-one male substance-abusing volunteers for drug studies were administered the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory (B-D). One hundred nineteen of these subjects were readministered the B-D with the instruction to answer the items in terms of their behavior while drinking alcohol, with 67 of these subjects also completing a heroin use condition. Expectancies for hostility under alcohol or heroin were generally uncorrelated with other measures of personality, psychopathology, antisocial personality, impulsiveness, or criminality; but expectancies for hostility under alcohol were predictive of diagnoses of alcohol, opioid, and marijuana abuse and dependence over and above the influence of these other measures.
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National Institute on Drug Abuse Addiction Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224.
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D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D003042:Cocaine; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D002189:Marijuana Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012307:Risk Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*
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