Differences in the self-depictions of female alcoholics and psychiatric outpatients: towards a depiction of the modal female alcoholic.
Forty-one Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) items that differentiated modal female alcoholics from modal nonsubstance-abusing psychiatric outpatients at the p less than .0001 level of significance were located. A principal factor analysis of the 41 X 41 item-intercorrelation matrix yielded three factors which were labeled (1) Deviant Thrill-Seeking, (2) Remorseful Intrapunitiveness and (3) Blackouts. Nonmodal alcoholics, who comprised approximately 20% of the present sample, were found to be indistinguishable from modal psychiatric outpatients except for their excessive consumption of alcohol.
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School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine 92717.
D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008875:Middle Aged; D012649:Self Concept