title: Antisocial personality traits and patients' satisfaction with treatment for addiction.
abstract: The over-all satisfaction with treatment for addiction (sum of scores on 11 items of a questionnaire) by 50 addicts and their self-reported confidence in remaining abstinent were unrelated to scores on MMPI-2 scales (all classical clinical and validity scales, 15 content scales and 7 research scales) except to reports of shyness on the Social Discomfort Scale: patients characterizing themselves as shy gave the higher ratings of satisfaction with treatment (r = .33). We note that our previous finding using the MMPI-2, i.e., that less.socially responsible and more rebellious patients provided lower satisfaction ratings, was not replicated for this sample of addicts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
authors.forename: Z Z
authors.initials: ZZ
authors.lastname: Cernovsky
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pennington
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*