A psychosocial comparison of drunken drivers and alcoholics

J Stud Alcohol. 1977 Jul;38(7):1294-312. doi: 10.15288/jsa.1977.38.1294.

Abstract

A self-administered questionnaire was used to compare selected demographic, drinking and psychosocial variables of 306 convicted drunken drivers with those of 289 alcoholics and 269 controls. The drunken-driver group fell between the other groups on many parameters but resembled the control group on as many others.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Psychological
  • Adult
  • Aggression
  • Alcohol Drinking
  • Alcoholic Intoxication*
  • Alcoholism*
  • Automobile Driving*
  • Defense Mechanisms
  • Demography
  • Depression
  • Humans
  • Internal-External Control
  • Leisure Activities
  • Male
  • Michigan
  • Paranoid Personality Disorder
  • Personality
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / administration & dosage
  • Self Concept
  • Social Desirability
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Suicide

Substances

  • Pharmaceutical Preparations