Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:481-487
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire scores of sons of alcoholic and nonalcoholic fathers
MA Schuckit, M Irwin and HI Mahler
School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego.
The authors studied 33 men whose fathers had severe alcohol-related
problems and 33 subjects with no family history of alcoholism. The former
supplied information about the course of their fathers' alcohol problems;
all 66 men answered questions about their own drinking and drug use and
completed the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire. There were no
significant relationships between any of the 18 questionnaire scores and a
subject's quantity/frequency of drinking or his family history of
alcoholism. There was only one significant correlation between the
alcoholic fathers' type 2 characteristics, according to the type 1/type 2
theory, and the sons' questionnaire scores. The relevance of these findings
to the theory is discussed.
