Citation

Cernovsky ZZ. Adv. Alcohol Subst. Abuse 1989; 8(1): 67-73.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Haworth Press)

DOI

10.1300/J251v08n01_05

PMID

2711915

Abstract

The mean self-reinforcement score of 62 chronic alcoholics was significantly lower than the mean score of 18 age- and sex-matched normal controls. However, both groups scored higher than the mean score of 300 normal undergraduates in a study by Heiby: low self-reinforcement scores do not seem to be unique to alcoholics. In alcoholics, the self-reinforcement scores were significantly correlated with the majority of the MMPI clinical scales: the highest coefficients were with the Social Introversion, Depression, Psychasthenia, and Schizophrenia--lower self-reinforcement level was associated with more psychopathology.

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