Types of Alcoholics, I: Evidence for an Empirically Derived Typology Based on Indicators of Vulnerability and Severity

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 1992, Pages 599-608

  Babor, Thomas F ^a   Hofmann, Michael ^b   DelBoca, Frances K ^a   Hesselbrock, Victor ^a   Meyer, Roger E ^a   Dolinsky, Zelig S ^a   Rounsaville, Bruce ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Connecticut Commission on Hospital and Health Care ^*  (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MMPI; PERSONALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0026719298     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820080007002     Document Type: Article

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