@article{ref1,
title="Temperament, character, and dissociation among detoxified male inpatients with alcohol dependency",
journal="Journal of clinical psychology (Hoboken)",
year="2008",
author="Evren, Cuneyt and Sar, Vedat and Dalbudak, Ercan",
volume="64",
number="6",
pages="717-727",
abstract="The aim of this study was to determine possible relationships of pathological dissociation with temperament, character, and concurrent psychopathological features in a consecutive series of male alcohol-dependent patients. Fifty-eight patients with pathological dissociation were compared with 118 nondissociative patients classified by dissociative taxon membership. Beside higher scores on anxiety, depression, and alcoholism scales, a larger proportion of dissociative group reported childhood abuse, suicide attempts, and self-mutilation than did the nondissociative group. They also had higher scores of novelty seeking and harm avoidance, but lower scores of persistence, self-directedness, and cooperativeness. Trait anxiety, depression, and severity of alcoholism predicted dissociative experiences; however, none of the temperament or character measures did. Rather than being a derivative of temperament or character features, dissociative experiences of male alcohol-dependent patients are associated with overall concurrent psychopathology.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9762",
doi="10.1002/jclp.20485",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20485"
}