Personality Characteristics of Adolescents Who Use and Misuse Alcohol

• NCJ Number: 113851
• Journal: Adolescence Volume: 23 Issue: 90 Dated: (Summer 1988) Pages: 383-404
• Author(s): J E Mayer
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 22 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The relationship between alcohol use and misuse and personality was investigated using 347 high school students.

Abstract

Students were tested with a battery which included measures of alcohol involvement (AAIS) and personality (CPI). The results demonstrated that as adolescents increasingly became involved in alcohol, the more their personality characteristics differed from those adolescents not involved or minimally involved with alcohol. The implications are discussed in light of past theories of alcohol misuse in adolescence. 26 references. (Author abstract)