title: How significant others cope with problem drinkers.
abstract: About half of the 234 college students surveyed have a close friend or relative whose drinking creates problems for the significant other. A variety of coping responses were identified but none of them was considered effective for either the drinker or significant other.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors