Ideological Differences Between Professionals and A.A. Members

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A survey of A.A. members and professional alcoholism treatment center directors elicited responses to ideology scales developed for this research. Alcoholics Anonymous often has been called ideological, as though professionals did not also adhere to ideologies. This report examines the ideologies of both A.A.s and professionals and hypothesizes that ideological differences influence mutual cooperation between them. Both ideology scales elicited significantly different attitudes between A.A. and professional rcspondents on the majority of items. When comparisons were controlled for perceived degree of cooperation between them, the noncooperators on both sides differed with each other much more than did cooperating respondents.

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