An Empirical Study of Alcoholic versus Nonalcoholic Person

Abstract

Psychological studies of the alcoholics have been primarily from the psychiatric and psychoanalytic points of view. These studies have been clinical in nature and, except in a few instances, have not represented research. They have been instead the reflections of physicians or psychiatrists upon their cases, rather than any systematic analysis of case records. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was employed to examine whether or not occasional and habitual alcohol users and non-users differ in terms of their personality factors.