Personality characteristics of heroin addicts: a response to Gendreau and Gendreau.

نویسنده

  • P B Sutker
چکیده

Demonstrating the effect of the volunteer factor on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles of addicts and nonaddicts, Gendreau and Gendreau suggested that previously reported MMPI differences between these two subject groups might well be explained by the "volunteer" status of the addict group. This article describes more thoroughly the unincarcerated addict sample, almost half of whom were compulsory candidates for treatment, and presents data to show that volunteer and nonvplunteer applicants were more similar than different on MMPI indices. Results of a follow-up investigation, however, point to the role of situational factors in elevating MMPI profiles of unincarcerated addicts who, addicted to heroin and involved in the cycle of street activities at the time of testing, differed significantly from prisoner groups of addicts and nonaddicts on several important dimensions. Similarly, certain MMPI indices, particularly Scale 4, were found to be relatively stable over time and conditions, reflecting perhaps a basic dispositional pattern or constellation of personality traits.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of abnormal psychology

دوره 83 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1974