Citation

MacAndrew C. J. Stud. Alcohol 1988; 49(1): 71-77.

Affiliation

School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine 92717.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3347079

Abstract

Forty-one Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) items that differentiated modal female alcoholics from modal nonsubstance-abusing psychiatric outpatients at the p less than .0001 level of significance were located. A principal factor analysis of the 41 X 41 item-intercorrelation matrix yielded three factors which were labeled (1) Deviant Thrill-Seeking, (2) Remorseful Intrapunitiveness and (3) Blackouts. Nonmodal alcoholics, who comprised approximately 20% of the present sample, were found to be indistinguishable from modal psychiatric outpatients except for their excessive consumption of alcohol.

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