This study was conducted with some questionnaires and psychological tests to investigate the behavioral trends and personality of the alcoholic s wives. The subjects were wives of 43 alcoholics who visited our departm ent from March 1990 to July 1991, and wives of 43 patients with chronic medical illness. The results are as follows * 1) The level of education of the experimental group is lower than that of the control group, though statistically not significant. Alcoholics as a group earned much less money compared to the control group. 2) The differences between the present jobs and those at the time of marriage of the husbands in each group are not significant and the differences of jobs between two groups in each time are not significant too. 3) Wives of alcoholics seem to have been more passive than the control group in determination to marry. 4) Alcoholics，wives usually treat their husbands either with decisively ordering manner or with indifference. 5) The preferred coping measures of the experimental group are shared concern, compliance and self-pity. 6) On MMPI. Hy scale is significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group. 7) With digital coding of MM PI profile, the cumulation of the scales of each codes shows the higher frequency of occurrence of Pd scale and the lesser frequency of Ma scale in the experimental group. The differences are statistically significant. 8) It is suggested that the neurotic trends and the copings o f wives of alcoholics are the results of the chronic cumulated alcohol-related stresses, the personality of wives have not effected the alcoholic marriage
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