Personality characteristics related to treatment decisions among inpatient alcoholics: A non-relationship

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Abstract
A battery of standard personality and experimental research scales was administered to 110 male alcoholic inpatients. No differences were found on the 30 scale scores derived from the tests among 3 groups with differential treatment dispositions: those who discontinued treatment after a 2-wk evaluation period; those who chose to remain for a 60-day treatment program, but discontinued prior to completion; and those who chose and did complete the 60-day program. Attrition from an inpatient alcoholism program might be predicted better by a multivariate approach that used demographic, life history, psychosocial and personality variables as predictors.