Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 63-68 , January 2006

Coping styles of type I and type II alcohol-dependent men undergoing treatment

  • George Moussas

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Unit of Alcoholic Patients, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni 12462, Greece
    • ,
  • Georgia Dandouti

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Unit of Alcoholic Patients, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni 12462, Greece
    • ,
  • Alexander Botsis

      Affiliations

    • University Mental Health Research Institute, Athens 15601, Greece
    • ,
  • Lefteris Lykouras

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, “Eginition” Hospital, Athens 11528, Greece
    • Department of General Hospital Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, “Attikon” Hospital, Athens 12462, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of General Hospital Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, “Attikon” Hospital, 124 62 Athens, Greece. Tel.: +30 1210 5831000; fax: +30 1210 5326453.

References 

  1. Allport G. Pattern and growth in personality. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1961;
  2. Tarter RE, Alterman AI, Edwards KL. Vulnerability to alcoholism in men: a behaviour-genetic perspective. J Stud Alcohol. 1985;46:329–356
  3. Tarter RE, Hegedus AM, Goldstein G, Shelly C, Alterman AI. Adolescent sons of alcoholics: neuropsychological and personality characteristics. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1984;8:216–224
  4. Sher KJ, Walitzer KS, Wood PK, Brener EE. Characteristics of children of alcoholics: putative risk factors, substance use and abuse, and psychopathology. J Abnorm Psychol. 1991;100:427–448
  5. Schuckit MA, Irwin M, Mahler HI. Tridimensional personality questionnaire scores of sons of alcoholics and nonalcoholic fathers. Am J Psychiatry. 1990;147:481–487
  6. Hesselbrock MN, Hesselbrock VM. Relationship of family history, antisocial personality disorder and personality traits in young men at risk for alcoholism. J Stud Alcohol. 1992;53:619–625
  7. Barnes GE. Clinical and personality characteristics. In:  Kissin B,  Resister H editor. The pathogenesis of alcoholism: psychosocial factors. vol. 6:New York: Plenum Ress; 1983;p. 113–196
  8. Meszaros K, Willinger U, Fischer G, Schonbeck G, Aschuer HN. The tridimensional personality model influencing variables in a sample of detoxified alcohol dependents. European Fluvoxamine in Alcoholism Study Group. Compr Psychiatry. 1996;37:109–114
  9. Jones MC. Personality antecedents and correlates of drinking patterns in adult males. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1968;32:2–12
  10. Sicher MF. Personality scores and licit and illicit substance use. Pers Individ Differ. 1981;2:235–241
  11. Scher KJ. Children of alcoholics: a critical appraisal of theory and research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1991;
  12. Graham JR, Strenger VE. MMPI characteristics of alcoholics. A review. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1988;56:197–205
  13. McGue M, Slutske W, Taylor J, Iacono WG. Personality and substance use disorders: I. Effects of gender and alcoholism subtype. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1997;21:513–519
  14. Cloninger CR, Sigvardsson S, Reich T, Bohman M. Childhood personality predicts alcohol abuse in young adults. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1988;12:494–505
  15. Molder RT. Alcoholism and personality. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2002;36:44–52
  16. Limosin F, Ades J, Gorwood P. Relationships between antisocial personality and alcoholism: genetic hypotheses. Eur Psychiatry. 2000;15:123–128
  17. Marlatt GA, Baer JS, Donovat DM, Kivlahan DR. Addictive behaviors: etiology and treatment. Annu Rev Psychol. 1988;39:223–252
  18. Wills TA, Vaccaro D, Benson G. Coping and competence in adolescent alcohol and drug use. In:  Wallander JL,  Siegel LJ editor. Adolescent health problems: behavioral perspectives. Advances in pediatric psychology. New York: Guilford Press; 1995;p. 160–178
  19. Breslin FC, O'Keefe MK, Burrell L, Ratliff-Crain J. The effect of stress and coping on daily alcohol use in women. Addict Behav. 1995;20:141–147
  20. Windle M, Windle RC. Coping strategies, drinking motives, and stress full life events among middle-adolescents: associations with emotional and behavioural problems and with academic functioning. J Abnorm Psychol. 1996;105:551–560
  21. Laurent J, Catanzaro SJ, Callan MK. Stress, alcohol-related expectancies and coping preferences: a replication with adolescents of the Cooper et al (1992) model. J Stud Alcohol. 1997;58:644–651
  22. Johnson V, Pandina RJ. Alcohol problems among a community sample: longitudinal influences of stress, coping and gender. Subst Use Misuse. 2000;35:669–680
  23. McCreary DR, Sadava SW. Stress, drinking and the adverse consequences of drinking in two samples of young adults. Psychol Addict Behav. 1998;12:247–261
  24. McKee SA, Hinson RE, Wall AM, Spriel P. Alcohol outcome expectancies and coping styles as predictors of alcohol use in young adults. Addict Behav. 1998;23:17–22
  25. Waisberg JL. Patient characteristics and outcome of inpatient treatment for alcoholism. Advanc Alcohol Subst Use. 1990;8:9–32
  26. Bilings A, Moos R. Psychosocial processes of recovery among alcoholics and their families: implications for clinicians and program evaluators. Addict Behav. 1983;8:205–218
  27. Litman GK, Eiser JR, Rawson NS, Oppenheim AN. Differences in relapse precipitants and coping behaviour between alcohol relapses and survivors. Behav Res Ther. 1979;17:89–94
  28. Marlatt GA, Gordon JR. Relapse prevention: maintenance strategies in the treatment of addictive behaviors. New York: Guilford Press; 1985;
  29. Babor TF, Lauerman BJ. Classification and forms in sobriety: historical antecedents of alcoholic typologies. Recent Dev Alcohol. 1986;4:113–114
  30. Cloninger CR, Bohman M, Siqvardsson S. Inheritance of alcohol abuse: cross-fostering analysis of adopted men. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1981;38:861–868
  31. von Knorring A-L, Bohman M, von Knorring L, Oreland L. Platelet MAO activity as a biological marker in subgroups of alcoholism. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1985;72:51–58
  32. Schuckit MA. Alcohol-related disorders. In:  Sadock BJ,  Sadock VA editor. Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry. vol. I:Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1999;p. 953–971
  33. Morey LC, Skinner HA. Empirically derived classifications of alcohol-related problems. In:  Galanter M editors. Recent developments in alcoholism. New York: Plenum; 1986;p. 145–168
  34. Zucker RA. The four alcoholisms: a developmental account of the etiologic process. In:  Rivers PC editors. Alcohol and addictive behavior. Lincoln (NE): University of Nebraska Press; 1986;p. 27–83
  35. Babor F, Hofmann M, Del Boca FK, Hesselbrock V, Meyer RE, Dolinsky ZS, et al. Types of alcoholics: I. Evidence for an empirically derived typology based on indicators of vulnerability and severity. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1992;49:599–608
  36. von Knorring L, von Knorring AL, Smigan L, Lindberg U, Edholm M. Personality traits in subtypes of alcoholics. J Stud Alcohol. 1987;48:523–527
  37. Penick EC, Powell BJ, Nickel EJ, Read MR, Gabrielli WF, Liskow BI. Examination of Cloninger's Type I and Type II alcoholism with a sample of men alcoholics in treatment. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1990;14:623–629
  38. Cloninger CR. Neuroadaptive mechanisms in alcoholism. Science. 1987;236:410–416
  39. Finn PR, Sharkansky EJ, Viken R, West TL, Sandy J, Bufferd GM. Heterogeneity in the families of sons of alcoholics: the impact of familial vulnerability type on offspring characteristics. J Abnorm Psychol. 1997;106:26–36
  40. Mazas CA, Finn PR, Steinmetz JE. Decision-making biases, antisocial personality, and early-onset alcoholism. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2000;24:1036–1040
  41. Hesselbrock MN, Hesselbrock VM, Babor TP, Stabenan JR, Meyer RE, Weidenman M. Antisocial behavior, psychopathology and problem drinking in the natural history of alcoholism. In:  Goodwin DW editors. Longitudinal research in alcoholism. Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff; 1984;p. 197–214
  42. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 3rd ed.. Washington (DC): American Psychiatric Press; 1987;[revised]
  43. Spitzer RL, Williams JB, Gibbon, M. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IIIR-personality disorders SCID-II. New York: Biometrics Research Department/New York: Biometrics Research, Research Department, New York State Department Institute; 1987.
  44. Plutchik R, Conte HR. Measuring emotions and their derivatives: personality traits, ego defenses, and coping styles. In:  Wetzler S,  Katz M editor. Contemporary approaches to psychological assessment. New York: Brunner/Mazel; 1989;
  45. Loevinger J. Ego development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1976;
  46. Vaillant GE. Adaptation to life. Boston: Little Brown and Co; 1977;
  47. Plutchik R. Emotion: a psychoevolutionary synthesis. New York: Harper and Row; 1980;
  48. Sjoberg L, Samsonowitz V. Coping strategies and relapse in alcohol use. Drug Alcohol Depend. 1985;15:283–301
  49. Kotler M, Finkelstein G, Molcho A, Botsis A, Plutchik R, Brown SL, et al. Correlates of suicide and violence risk in impatient population: coping styles and social support. Psychiatry Res. 1993;47:281–290
  50. Conte HR, Plutchik R, Picard S, Galanter M, Jacoby J. Sex differences in personality traits and coping styles of hospitalized alcoholics. J Stud Alcohol. 1991;52:26–32
  51. Forrest GG. Intensive psychotherapy of alcoholism. London: Aronson; 1994;
  52. Schuckit M, Klein M, Twitchell G, Smith T. Personality test scores as predictors of alcoholism almost a decade later. Am J Psychiatry. 1994;151:1038–1042
  53. Mezzich A, Tarter R, Kirisci L, Clark D, Buckstein O, Martin C. Subtypes of early onset alcoholism. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1993;17:767–770
  54. Lawford BR, Young RMcD, Rowell JA, Gibson JN, Feeney GFX, Ritchie TL, et al. Association of the dopamine receptor A1 allele with alcoholism: medical severity of alcoholism and type of controls. Biol Psychiatry. 1997;41:386–393
  55. Edwards G, Gross MM. Alcohol dependence: provisional description of a clinical syndrome. BMJ. 1976;1:1058–1061
  56. Lewin JD. Treatment of alcoholism and other addictions. A self-psychology approach. London: Aronson; 1991;

PII: S0010-440X(04)00106-3

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.07.018

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 63-68 , January 2006

Article Tools