Citation

Blum TC, Roman PM, Bennett N. J. Stud. Alcohol 1989; 50(1): 5-14.

Affiliation

College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2927123

Abstract

Attitudes toward alcoholism among a representative sample of 524 adults in Georgia indicate acceptance of the disease concept remains incomplete. Despite expected regional differences, results from bivariate analyses are consistent with previous research conducted in other areas of the U.S. The Georgia data indicate similar levels of acceptance of the disease concept of alcoholism, similar demographic correlates with that acceptance and similar treatment recommendations for alcoholism. Attitudes toward alcoholism are found to be significantly correlated with views concerning cocaine dependence, but the acceptance of the disease concept of alcoholism is significantly greater. The multivariate discriminant analysis reveals that education and income are the most significant discriminators between the medical and moral/medical images of alcoholism, followed by religion, age and race.

Language: en