Individuation and adult children of alcoholics.
42 adult male and 99 female volunteers from the Washington and Baltimore areas were administered the Psychological Separation Inventory, the Personal Authority in the Family System Questionnaire, the Adult Child of Alcoholics Screening Test, the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, and the Symptom-Checklist-90--R in a study of variables associated with the development of psychopathology of adult children of alcoholics. Individuation evolving from family dynamics rather than from intrapsychic individuation was more crucial to the development of psychopathology.
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College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park 20742.
Eliot
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D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010553:Personality Development