RÉSUMÉ
Four groups of domiciliary residents were studied with the Institutionalized Chronic Alcoholic Scale (ICAS) and MacAndrew Scale (MAC) to determine the more effective indirect alcoholism scale. The groups included: (a) 48 alcoholics, (b) 27 residents with alcoholism and other psychiatric diagnoses, (c) 24 residents with psychiatric diagnoses only, and (d) 22 with only medical diagnoses. MacAndrew had omitted two alcohol usage items from the 51 item MAC in order to develop a more effective indirect scale, free of alcohol usage items. A similar omission technique was employed with the ICAS in the current study. ANOVA indicated that the MAC was the more effective indirect scale.
Sujet(s)
Alcoolisme/diagnostic , Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory/statistiques et données numériques , Inventaire de personnalité/statistiques et données numériques , Alcoolisme/psychologie , Alcoolisme/rééducation et réadaptation , Comorbidité , Humains , Mâle , Troubles mentaux/diagnostic , Troubles mentaux/psychologie , Troubles mentaux/rééducation et réadaptation , Adulte d'âge moyen , Psychométrie , Reproductibilité des résultats , RechercheRÉSUMÉ
Though contrasting MMPI approaches yield opposing conclusions regarding personalities of alcoholics, the relative efficacy of the approaches has not been evaluated. In this study of 309 domiciliary patients, the alcoholism scale and cluster analytic approaches were compared with respect to the identification of alcoholics and excessive-drinking subjects. The MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale significantly identified alcoholics; however, there was no identification with the profiles of the clinical scales generated by the cluster analytic technique. The conclusions suggest the greater efficacy of the alcoholism scale approach and suggest that the clustering strategy might be more fruitfully applied to alcoholism scales.
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Alcoolisme/diagnostic , Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , Consommation d'alcool , Alcoolisme/psychologie , Hôpitaux psychiatriques , Humains , Mâle , Adulte d'âge moyen , Psychométrie , Troubles psychotiques/psychologie , RechercheRÉSUMÉ
The results of these comparisons that used the MacAndrew and Holmes scales suggest that the practice of excluding Ss with F scores at or above 16 may result in the discarding of data on alcoholic and problem-drinking Ss with no appreciable gain in the statistical differentiation of the remaining Ss. In the case of the Hampton scale, application of the rule results in nonsignificant statistical results. Furthermore, the F scale differentiated the groups more effectively than did the Hampton scale. It is suggested that MMPI investigators who use the MacAndrew and other alcoholism scales reexamine the appropriateness of MacAndrew's exclusion rule for their particular samples.
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Alcoolisme/diagnostic , Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , Plan de recherche , Consommation d'alcool , Diagnostic différentiel , Humains , Troubles du comportement social/diagnosticRÉSUMÉ
The MacAndrew and Holmes alcoholism scales differentiated older domiciled alcoholics and residents with disciplinary problems related to problem drinking from nonalcoholics. It is suggested that the scales can identify older problem drinkers along similar dimensions as alcoholics and that they might be applied to studying problem drinkrs who have as yet not received diagnoses of alcoholism.