Download or read book Personality Characteristics and Personality Styles of Adult Children of Alcoholics as Compared with Adult Children of Nonalcoholics written by George David Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adult Children of Alcoholics and Non alcoholics written by C. Amy Shannon and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult children of alcoholics have been identified as a population at risk for a number of disorders, including problem drinking, diminished self-esteem, disturbed interpersonal functioning, and a range of psychological problems including depression and anxiety. Recent research, however, has identified a supportive relationship with a primary caregiver as a potential protective factor for at-risk children, suggesting that attachment theory may provide a useful conceptual scheme in understanding resiliency among adult children of alcoholics. The present study examined resiliency issues and attachment style between a sample of Alanon participants and graduate students who resided with an alcohol-abusing parent prior to age 16 years as compared to those who did not reside with alcohol-abusing parents before the age of 16 years. One hundred twenty-six participants completed a demographic questionnaire, the Children of Alcoholics Screening Test, the Experience in Close Relationships Inventory-Revised, the Individual Protective Factors Index, and the Resiliency Scale. A series of independent sample t-tests were conducted between the adult children of alcoholic's and the non-adult children of alcoholic's on (a) classification of attachment style; and (b) individual protective factors. Furthermore, correlations were conducted between adult children of alcoholics on (a) classification of attachment style; and (b) measures of individual protective factors. Results indicated that less resilient adult children of alcoholics displayed a less secure attachment style and were characterized significantly by the anxiety attachment style. Adult children of alcoholics with lower levels of resiliency also had lower scores for the resiliency factors than adult children of non-alcoholics. However, more resilient adult children of alcoholics displayed a more secure attachment style and had higher scores for the resiliency and protective factors. This study did not find a significant difference between resiliency levels and attachment styles between male and female adult children of alcoholics.
Download or read book The Laundry List written by Tony A. and published by Hci. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The originator of the ACoA "Laundry Lists" gives an insider's view of the early days of the ACoA movement. Tony A. discusses what it means to be an adult child of an alcoholic parent and what the self-help group can do for its members. Includes stories, history and helpful information for the ACoA.
Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Aspects of Adjustment Among Adult Children of Alcoholics and Adult Children of Nonalcoholics in the Form of Personality Characteristics and Its Relationship to the Description of Codependent Behavior written by Karen Biddy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adult Children of Alcoholics written by Cynthia Ann Walker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated how adult children of alcoholics differ from adult children of non-alcoholics when measured on the personality characteristics of autonomy, inferiority and intimacy. The subjects were randomly selected from the employees of a large school district in southeast Virginia. Each subject received a questionnaire package that included the Adjective Check List, Personal Orientation Inventory, Children of Alcoholics Screening Test and The Personal History Questionnaire. The return rate for questionnaire packages was 72%. All subjects were volunteers and their identities remained anonymous to the researcher. The sample size was 130. The subjects were placed in the adult children of alcoholics group (n = 86) if they were parented by an alcoholic and scored six or above on the Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CAST). Subjects were placed in the adult children of non-alcoholics group (n = 44) if they were not parented by an alcoholic and scored below six on the CAST. The subjects were compared on the autonomy and abasement scales of the Adjective Check List, and the capacity of intimate contact (C) scale of The Personal Orientation Inventory. There was no statistically significant difference found between the two groups when a t-test was employed with the alpha level set at the.05. A Bonferroni method was used to control for alpha since several questions were studied. For this population which was primarily white, well-educated, employed, females, there was no statistically significant difference between adult children of alcoholics and adult children of non-alcoholics for the variables of autonomy, inferiority and intimacy. However, self-reported adult children of alcoholics scored statistically significantly higher on the Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CAST) than did self-reported adult children of non- alcoholics using a t-test with the alpha level set at.05. All self reported adult children of alcoholics scored six or above on the CAST. This research was based on the work of Erik Erikson and his developmental stage approach. These findings would indicate that some children of alcoholics may not be in need of treatment or a recovery program.
Download or read book Personality Types Learning Styles and Family Roles written by Karen Elaine Brown and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Personality Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics Compared with the Personality Characteristics of Non adult Children of Alcoholics Among a College Student Population written by Steven Robert Kowa and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personality Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents written by Margaret Rose Paccione-Dyszlewski and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study was designed to investigate whether the personalities of adult children of alcoholics differ in some way from individuals who do not have an alcoholic parent. Women (N = 122) were divided into an adult children of alcoholic parents group (ACAP, n = 61) and an adult children of nonalcoholic parents group (ACNP, n = 61) based on their score on the Children of Alcoholics Screening Test. Subjects reporting either a history of substance abuse or a current alcohol dependence problem were eliminated from the study. Subjects were then administered the primary research instrument, the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF). The factors under investigation were warmth (A), ego strength (C), dominance (E), superego strength (G), protension (L), shrewdness (N), guilt proneness (O), and ergic tension (Q4). The findings of the study are based on the results of several statistical procedures. In order to determine the degree to which the personality factors under investigation were related, Pearson correlation coefficients were computed for the combined groups. Results indicated significant relationships between the following cluster of five factors: ego strength (C), dominance (E), protension (L), guilt proneness (O), and ergic tension (Q4). A MANOVA revealed a statistically significant difference between the ACAP group and the ACNP group. Univariate results of the eight factors produced statistically significant differences between the ACAP group and the ACNP group on two factors, guilt proneness (O) and ergic tension (Q4). Children of alcoholics were more likely to be guilt prone and tense. As the result of the conventional predictive methods suggested a dichotomy between the ACAP and the ACNP groups, clustering strategies were applied to examine more specific group placement. Results of the various procedures strongly supported the suggestion of a dichotomy between the groups by producing a highly statistically significant cluster solution to the group placement of subjects by clustering methods. Both the results of the conventional predictive methods and the clustering strategies provide empirical support for the assumption that the experience of having an alcoholic parent in some systematic way influences the personality development of an adult exposed to this experience in a way that is demonstrably and reliably different from the personality development of an adult not exposed to this experience. Results are discussed and directions for further research are proposed..
Download or read book Personality Subtypes Among Adult Children of Alcoholics written by Anu Radha Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparison of Evangelical Christian Adult Children of Alcoholics and Nonalcoholics on Selected Personality and Religious Variables written by Sandra Donnis Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated selected personality characteristics and religious perceptions of evangelical christian adult children of alcoholics to determine if they differed significantly from those of evangelical adult children of non-alcoholics. Subjects were divided into control (n = 62) and experimental (n = 67) groups by their scores on the children of alcoholics screening test, distrustfulness, denial of feelings, depression, guilt-proneness, and need to control were measured by the sixteen personality factor questionnaire. To determine if there were significant differences between adult children of alcoholics and adult children of non-alcoholics, mean scores from the two groups were compared using t-tests. Religious perception problems were measured by the personal data questionnaire, a 23 item questionnaire addressing demographics, family history, and religious perceptions. The t-test was performed on each group's mean score of perceived religious problems, which were problems experiencing God's love and forgiveness, trusting God's will, believing biblical promises, and forgiving others. Chi-square tests were used to determine which of the four problem areas differed significantly; the first three differed at p = [lesser than] .001, the last at p = [lesser than] .01. Four of six hypotheses were confirmed (p = [lesser than] .001); they were those predicting that adult children of alcoholics would be significantly more distrusting, depressed, guilt-prone, and would experience significantly more problems in their religious perceptions than adult children of non-alcoholics. Subjects' perceptions of their families of origin, current life satisfaction, and numerous personal and familial variables were analyzed by chi-square tests. In comparison to controls, adult children of alcoholics were significantly (p = [lesser than] .001) more apt to have sought therapy recently, to perceive their families of origin as less loving and secure, and to perceive their marriages and their current lives as less satisfying. In the same comparison, they had been married formerly to alcoholic spouses, and sexually abused as children significantly more often (p = [lesser than] .01). Evangelical christian adult children of alcoholics exhibit the same troubling personality characteristics as general population adults raised in alcoholic homes; they do not seem to be "immunized" by their faith. This finding was discussed, and recommendations were made to researchers, clinicians, and clergypersons.
Download or read book Adult Children written by Adult Children of Alcoholics (Association) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the official ACA Fellowship Text that is Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization (ACA WSO) Conference Approved Literature. Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families (ACA) is an independent 12 Step and 12 Tradition anonymous program.
Download or read book An Exploration of the Personality Characteristics and Interpersonal Relating Behaviors of Adult Children of Alcoholics written by Christine M. Plansker and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adult Children of Alcoholics written by Janet G. Woititz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980's, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. In this updated edition of her bestseller she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics. After decades of working with ACoAs she shares the recovery hints that she has found to work. Read Adult Children of Alcoholics to see where the journey began and for ideas on where to go from here.
Download or read book Personality Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics Compared to Control Subjects written by Marianne M. Schumacher and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personality Characteristics and Perceptions of Family Environment for Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents and Adult Children of Nonalcoholic Parents written by Marianne McClure and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adult Children of Alcoholics Personality Characteristics and Their Relationship to Impatient Alcoholism Treatment Planning written by Manuel Omar Mejia and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and the Symptom Check List-90-R (SCL-90-R) were both administered in the Spanish version to thirty-five (35) consenting Hispanic male subjects from Central and South America. Subjects came to a hospital alcoholism treatment unit for inpatient treatment and met research and diagnostic criteria as specified by unit staff. These subjects were tested during the first week of treatment; sixteen (16) consenting subjects came from alcoholic homes while nineteen (19) came from nonalcoholic homes. All adult children of alcoholic (ACOA) subjects had alcoholic fathers only. Mean profile scores were computed to evaluate whether significant differences exist between the two treatment groups. Standard cutting scores of 65 on the MMPI-2 and SCL-90-R were used as diagnostic indicators of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The research hypothesis compared the mean scores of the two groups on test subscales using a two-tailed t-test with the Bonferroni correction. The alpha level of significance of this study was set at .05. No significant differences were found between these two groups with regard to their (PTSD) profiles in the MMPI-2 and SCL-90-R Hispanic test versions in comparison with U.S. standardized norms. The MMPI-2 and SCL-90-R scale scores of Hispanics with alcoholism were similar to those of other groups within this diagnostic category.
Download or read book The Relationship of Parental Alcoholism to Adult Personality Traits written by Margaret Kearny Moroney and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
