TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Temperament, character, and dissociation among detoxified male inpatients with alcohol dependency
JO  - Journal of clinical psychology (Hoboken)
A1  - Evren, Cuneyt
A1  - Sar, Vedat
A1  - Dalbudak, Ercan
SP  - 717
EP  - 727
VL  - 64
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0021-9762
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20485
ID  - ref1
ER  -