title: Self-cognitions in antisocial alcohol dependence and recovery.
abstract: Cross-sectional relationships between content and structural properties of the self-concept and alcohol use in young adults with antisocial alcohol dependence (AAD) (n = 24), those in recovery from AAD (n = 18), and controls (n = 23) were examined using the schema model of the self-concept. Persons with AAD had a trend toward fewer positive self-schemas than did controls, and had more negative self-schemas and a trend toward higher interrelatedness than did those in recovery and controls. They also showed evidence of a drinking-related self-schema, whereas those in recovery showed evidence of a recovery-related self-schema. Finally, evidence to support a model using properties of the self-concept to predict high levels of alcohol use was found. These findings provide a beginning empirical foundation for the development of nursing interventions aimed at altering self-structure to prevent the development of and promote recovery from antisocial alcohol dependence.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
authors.forename: Colleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Corte
authors.forename: Karen Farchaus
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003071:Cognition; D003289:Convalescence / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009341:Negativism; D011779:Q-Sort; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012649:Self Concept