"The purpose of the present study was to examine the tendency on the part of hospitalized narcotic drug addicts to identify with "addicts-in-general.' Identification was defined . . . in terms of a discrepancy between his self-evaluation on a true-false inventory of habits, feelings, and attitudes, and his evaluation of 'most addicts' on a parallel inventory of similar content . . . [Specific] hypotheses . . . were tested with data collected in clinical interviews and . . . a [test] battery. These theoretical formulations regarding addict identification gained some degree of support from the data." From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4JM15M. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)