title: Self-reinforcement scores of alcoholics.
abstract: The mean self-reinforcement score of 62 chronic alcoholics was significantly lower than the mean score of 18 age- and sex-matched normal controls. However, both groups scored higher than the mean score of 300 normal undergraduates in a study by Heiby: low self-reinforcement scores do not seem to be unique to alcoholics. In alcoholics, the self-reinforcement scores were significantly correlated with the majority of the MMPI clinical scales: the highest coefficients were with the Social Introversion, Depression, Psychasthenia, and Schizophrenia--lower self-reinforcement level was associated with more psychopathology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Z Z
authors.initials: ZZ
authors.lastname: Cernovsky
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012649:Self Concept