title: Self assessment of social competence in situations with and without alcohol by female alcoholics in treatment.
abstract: Female alcoholic in-patients (N = 156) were asked during a three months treatment to rate the degree of discomfort they expected (a) in situations demanding assertiveness, but not involving rejection of alcoholic beverages and (b) in situations characterized by social temptation to drink. Correlations of ratings with age, duration of problem drinking, mean ethanol consumption per day or length of education were insignificant. Actual experience with social temptation situations in the past did not influence the rating. A principal Component Analysis showed that ratings of discomfort in general social situations and in alcohol related social situations are largely unrelated. The result of partially independent appraisals of general and alcohol related assertiveness suggests that both should be assessed independently, and generalizations from one to the other might be misleading.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012919:Social Behavior