알코올 중독 환자들의 성격 특성에 관한 탐색

Exploration of Personality Trait in Alcoholics

The purpose of this study was to explore the influences of personality trait and behavioral aspects in alcoholics. A shorter version of Tridementional Personality Questionnaire, Aggression Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory-Korean version were administered to 156 male alcoholics. In doing so, this participants were distinguished by a difference of means from normal norms. In increasing age, sensation seeking tendency or behavioral undercontrol was on the decrease, and direct aggression showed a tendency to decrease, but overall aggressive level didn’t show significant relation with age. Using the K-means Cluster Analysis, four subgroups were extracted;that is, a depressiondirect aggression-verbal aggression-anger-hostility profile (n= 30), a depression-hostility profile (n=44), a verbal aggressionanger-hostility profile (n=44), a normal profile (n=41). At the conclusion, implication and limitations of this study were discussed.