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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 396-401, 1999
© 1999 Medical Council on Alcoholism

DEPENDENCE, LOCUS OF CONTROL, PARENTAL BONDING, AND PERSONALITY DISORDERS: A STUDY IN ALCOHOLICS AND CONTROLS

E. Marchiori*, S. Loschi, P. L. Marconi1, D. Mioni2 and L. Pavan

Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Padua, Italy,
1 ARTEMIS Neuropsichiatrica, Rome and
2 Gastroenterology Department, University of Padua, Italy

Received 2 November 1998; first review notified 7 December 1998; accepted 12 January 1999

ABSTRACT

Personality traits, socio-cultural factors, and dysfunctional family systems are considered to be important in the aetiology and clinical development of alcoholism. Particularly, conflict and issues involving psychological (emotional) dependence have long been associated with alcohol addiction. The present work, part of a more extensive study to validate a new rating scale to measure emotional dependence, the Dependence Self-rating Scale (DSRS), assesses dependence, orientation of locus of control, parental bonding perceptions, and personality disorders (PDs) in alcoholic and non-alcoholic samples. The alcoholics showed a prevalence of PDs of 31.3%. The most frequent is the Schizoid PD (40%) followed by the Dependent PD (20%). Subjects with antisocial PD were not included in our selection criteria. The alcoholics scored higher on the DSRS than the controls, but this difference was not statistically significant. By making a comparison between subjects with and without PDs, the DSRS scores were significantly higher in alcoholics with PDs. No significant differences between alcoholics and non-alcoholics in the parental perceptions and locus of control were seen. These findings are sufficiently coherent to encourage further studies on psychological emotional dependence in alcoholics using the DSRS.


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