The relation between drinking habits and neuroticism and weak ego among male and female alcoholic patients
Acta Psychiatrica ScandinavicaPublished 1 May 1987
Christer Sandahl, Staffan I. Lindberg, Hans Bergman
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Improved drinking habits were connected only with improved self‐esteem, particularly among female patients, in a consecutive series of 300 alcoholic inpatients during treatment and 2 1/2 years later.
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The relationship between drinking habits and personality functioning was studied in a consecutive series of 300 alcoholic inpatients during treatment and 2 1/2 years later. The alcoholic sample showed more signs of neuroticism and lack of ego strength than the general population. Among the alcoholics there was a relationship between advanced drinking habits and more pathological personality functioning. However at the follow-up improved drinking habits were connected only with improved self-esteem, particularly among female patients.
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