title: [The personality of wives of alcoholic patients].
abstract: This work is a study of the personality of the wives of alcoholic patients composed by means of a structures interview, the MMPI personality questionnaire and the Instrument I used to evaluate aggressivity. Among the discoveries made, we must emphasize that 20% of the wives knew of their partner's excessive alcohol consumption before marriage, while married, 75% were victims of some kind of violent incident, 43% had personal psychopathological backgrounds, 15% were "repeaters wives" "those who had alcoholic parents). In the MMPI test, these women represent a significantly high profile, in which the scales Hs, D and Hy are the highest, amongst which their most outstanding personality traits include passivity, dependency and insecurity. Furthermore, those wives whose husbands have had relapses, represent a higher Pd scale than the other group. The Instrument I used to evaluate aggressivity also emphasizes this passive-aggressive tendency in the wives.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Alcoholismo, Hospital Psiquiátrico, Salamanca.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Avila Escribano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ledesma Jimeno
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008875:Middle Aged; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: Estudio de la personalidad en las esposas de pacientes alcohólicos.