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Citation

Giancola PR, Peterson JB, Pihl RO. J. Clin. Psychol. (Hoboken) 1993; 49(3): 423-428.

Affiliation

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8315046

Abstract

Numerous studies have demonstrated the existence of an association between alcoholism and antisocial personality (ASP). The present study tested two hypotheses: First, that nonalcoholic men with a multigenerational familial history (MGH) of alcoholism would play more cards on a card task that has been shown previously to differentiate antisocial populations from normals and, second, that MGH subjects would display more evidence of ASP on two personality questionnaires: The Self-Report Psychopathy scale and the Socialization scale of the California Psychological Inventory. A total of 28 subjects (14 MGH and 14 family history negative for alcoholism [FH-]) were employed in this study. MGH subjects played significantly more cards during the card task than did FH- subjects. However, the two groups did not differ on the ASP questionnaires. The possibility that a subtle frontal-lobe deficit, rather than ASP per se, underlies the poorer performance of the MGH males is discussed.


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