Temperament, character, and dissociation among detoxified male inpatients with alcohol dependency

The aim of this study was to determine possible relationships of pathological dissociation with temperament, character, and concurrent psychopathological features in a consecutive series of male alcohol‐dependent patients. Fifty‐eight patients with pathological dissociation were compared with 118 no...

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Published in:Journal of clinical psychology 2008-06, Vol.64 (6), p.717-727
Main Authors: Evren, Cuneyt, Sar, Vedat, Dalbudak, Ercan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Aged
alcohol abuse
Alcoholism
Alcoholism - diagnosis
Alcoholism - epidemiology
Alcoholism - rehabilitation
anxiety
Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis
Anxiety Disorders - epidemiology
Character
Child
Child Abuse - psychology
Child Abuse - statistics & numerical data
Clinical psychology
Comorbidity
Control Groups
Cooperative Behavior
Correlation analysis
depression
Depressive Disorder - diagnosis
Depressive Disorder - epidemiology
dissociation
Dissociative Disorders - diagnosis
Dissociative Disorders - epidemiology
Dissociative Disorders - psychology
Hospitalization
Humans
Linear Models
Male
Males
Mental Disorders - diagnosis
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Middle Aged
Personality Inventory
Personality traits
Psychopathology
Self Mutilation - diagnosis
Self Mutilation - epidemiology
Self Mutilation - psychology
Sex Factors
Studies
Suicide, Attempted - psychology
Suicide, Attempted - statistics & numerical data
Temperament
Turkey - epidemiology
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Summary:The aim of this study was to determine possible relationships of pathological dissociation with temperament, character, and concurrent psychopathological features in a consecutive series of male alcohol‐dependent patients. Fifty‐eight patients with pathological dissociation were compared with 118 nondissociative patients classified by dissociative taxon membership. Beside higher scores on anxiety, depression, and alcoholism scales, a larger proportion of dissociative group reported childhood abuse, suicide attempts, and self‐mutilation than did the nondissociative group. They also had higher scores of novelty seeking and harm avoidance, but lower scores of persistence, self‐directedness, and cooperativeness. Trait anxiety, depression, and severity of alcoholism predicted dissociative experiences; however, none of the temperament or character measures did. Rather than being a derivative of temperament or character features, dissociative experiences of male alcohol‐dependent patients are associated with overall concurrent psychopathology. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 64:717–727, 2008.
ISSN:0021-9762
1097-4679
DOI:10.1002/jclp.20485