A failure to find empirical support for Beardslee and Vaillant's prediction about alcoholism.
Recent studies have proposed that the personality pathology in alcoholics is probably a result, not a cause, of alcohol intake. Thus, 19 male alcoholic veterans were assessed to determine whether there was a positive correlation between personality pathology and lifetime amount of absolute alcohol consumed. A multiple regression analysis of the data showed that there was no evidence for a statistically significant positive correlation between the lifetime amount of absolute alcohol consumed and personality pathology. The only statistically significant correlation found was a negative correlation between personality pathology and age, a finding consistent with some other recent studies.
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Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina.
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D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D010556:Personality Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*