Citation

Fisher GL, Jenkins SJ, Harrison TC, Jesch K. J. Subst. Abuse 1992; 4(1): 27-34.

Affiliation

University of Nevada, Reno 89557.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1627990

Abstract

Ninety-seven adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs), 36 adults with dysfunctional family histories, and 41 adults without identified dysfunctional family histories were compared on self-reports of 20 adult characteristics. Significant differences among the groups were found on 4 of the characteristics, with the ACOA group showing the highest frequency of occurrence on 17 of them. No differences due to gender of the alcoholic parent were found, and there was no group by gender interaction. The results suggested that the clinical characteristics attributed to ACOAs may have some empirical validity but the ACOAs seem fairly similar to adults with other types of dysfunctional family histories.

Language: en