Personality Characteristics and the Alcoholic. A Critique of Current Studies

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Abstract
Research studies (18) published during the period 1949-1956 and dealing with personality characteristics of the alcoholic are reviewed and discussed. Projective personality tests, while justifiably seeking basic, unchanging aspects of personality as related to alcoholism, present data which, for the most part, is ambiguous and subjective. Nonprojective personality tests, while often methodologically adequate, leave much to be desired in terms of theoretical import. Research studies have failed to provide adequate data permitting discrimination of the personality of alcoholics from non-alcoholics or types of alcoholics from one another. This conclusion is consistent with that reached by Sutherland, Schroeder and Tordella (Personality traits and the alcoholic, Quart. J. Stud. Alc. 11(4): 547-561, 1950.) in their review of 37 studies covering the period 1936- 1949.

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