입원된 주정의존증 환자와 그 부인의 정신증상

Alcohol Dependent Males and Their Wives

Psychopathology of 20 male, hospitalized alcoholics and their wives were measured by Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90). Twenty wives of schizophrenic husbands and twenty normal couples, matched for age and education, were used for controls. Correlation was looked for between the degree of alcohol dependence of the alcoholic husbands as assessed by Alcohol Screeing Test (AST) and the psychopathology of their wives as measured by SCL-90. The results were as follows. 1) The alcoholics, as compared with the normal males, showed significantly higher scores on depression, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, obsession, paranoia and psychoticism, in that order. 2) The wives of the alcoholics, as compared to the wives of the normal couples, showed significantly higher scores on anxiety depression, obsession, hostility, and somatization, in that order However, the wives of the schizophrenisc showed no higher scores than the wives of the normal couples. The wives of the alcoholics, when compared to the wives of the schizophrenics, showed higher scores on somatization and anxiety. 3) The AST scores of the alcoholics did not correlate with the wives’ psychopathology as assessed by SCL-90 in all scales except phobic anxiety, the significance of which was doubted since their scores of phobic anxiety was not higher than that of the wives of the normal couples.