Citation

Avila Escribano JJ, Ledesma Jimeno A. Actas Luso Esp. Neurol. Psiquiatr. Cienc. Afines 1990; 18(6): 355-363.

Vernacular Title

Estudio de la personalidad en las esposas de pacientes alcoholicos.

Affiliation

Unidad de Alcoholismo, Hospital Psiquiátrico, Salamanca.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Grupo Ars XXI de Comunicacion, SA)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2094171

Abstract

This work is a study of the personality of the wives of alcoholic patients composed by means of a structures interview, the MMPI personality questionnaire and the Instrument I used to evaluate aggressivity. Among the discoveries made, we must emphasize that 20% of the wives knew of their partner's excessive alcohol consumption before marriage, while married, 75% were victims of some kind of violent incident, 43% had personal psychopathological backgrounds, 15% were "repeaters wives" "those who had alcoholic parents). In the MMPI test, these women represent a significantly high profile, in which the scales Hs, D and Hy are the highest, amongst which their most outstanding personality traits include passivity, dependency and insecurity. Furthermore, those wives whose husbands have had relapses, represent a higher Pd scale than the other group. The Instrument I used to evaluate aggressivity also emphasizes this passive-aggressive tendency in the wives.

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