The Addiction-Prone Personality

• Main Authors: Barnes, Gordon E. (Author), Murray, Robert P. (Author), Patton, David. (Author), Bentler, Peter M. (Author), Anderson, Robert E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
• Series: Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series
• Subjects: Psychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.
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The production of this book represents a culmination for me of some 25 years of interest in the field of personality and substance use and abuse. In choosing the field of substanceuse and abuse for the focus of our research, all of the investi- tors collaborating in this research have been sustained...

Table of Contents:

• Personality and Alcohol Abuse
• The Winnipeg Health and Drinking Survey
• Methodology
• Prevalence
• Personality and Alcohol Abuse Results
• The Clinical Study
• Methodology of the Clinical Study
• Personality and Addiction in Clinical and General Population Samples
• Personality and Treatment Outcome
• Subgroups of Alcoholics
• Types of Alcoholics in the General Population and Clinical Samples
• The Prealcoholic Personality
• The Prealcoholic Personality in the General Population and Clinical Samples
• The Development of the Prealcoholic/Addiction Prone Personality
• Conclusions
• Integration and Conclusions.