Women Alcoholics–Are They Different from Other Women?
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 18 (2) , 251-270
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088309027355
Abstract
Research suggests that the woman who becomes alcoholic is conflicted and ambivalent about being a woman. Most of the alcoholism literature is based on men''s lives; theories about why women drink are offshoots of theories about male drinking behavior. There were no studies reported considering alcoholic women from a normal developmental perspective. The psychological aspects of perceptual dependence, level of ego development and female sex role perceptions were investigated in a group of alcoholic women in comparison to nonalcoholic women similar to them. Implications for prevention and treatment are discussed.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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