Personality differences between successfully and unsuccessfully treated drug abusers
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Frank Biasco
The University of West Florida
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David L. Redfering
The University of West Florida
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- Keywords:
- social behavior, social psychology, sex, personality, differences, success, unsuccessful, drug, abusers, treatment, hypochondriasis, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, MMPI, hysteria, social introversion, masculinity, Femininity
- Abstract
- Personality differences of 71 residents in a therapeutic community drug abuse programme were examined with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Successfully treated males scored significantly (p < .05) higher on scales of Hypochondriasis (Hs), Hysteria (Hy), and Masculinity-Femininity (Mf). Successfully treated females obtained a significantly (p < .05) higher score on the Social Introversion (si) Scale. Unsuccessfully treated females scored significantly (p < .05) higher than the successfully treated females on the Masculinity-Femininity (Mf) Scales. Of the two-point code types, all of the 49-94 code types were unsuccessful; the largest number of successfully treated drug abusers for any one code type was in the 48-84 code type.
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- Published
- 1983-02-01
- Issue
- Volume 11, 1983, Issue 1
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