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H T Blane

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PubMed1990

Communicative competence in sons of alcoholics.

Sons of alcoholic (SA), depressive (SD), and social drinking (SN) fathers gave 3-min speeches under low- and high-stress conditions. Trained raters, unaware of group membership, scored each speech on a variety of communicative competence dimensions. The results gave evidence that the SA group, relative to the SN group, showed deficits in all six speech variables. Further results suggested that the SA group was unaffected by level of stress, while the SD group showed a decrease in communicative clarity from speech 1 (low stress) to speech 2 (high stress). The results suggest lower levels of communicative competence among adult sons of alcoholics. The implication of this finding with regard to the psychosocial functioning of children of alcoholics is discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

Cognitive ability and drinking behavior in a national sample of young adults.

The role of verbal intelligence (VI) as an antecedent and moderator of alcohol-related problems was investigated for a national sample of young adults. A measure of VI was used to predict alcohol related behavior 5 years later. Results indicated that lower VI was associated with lower risk for drinking per se. Lower VI was also associated with higher risk for alcohol-related problems among those who drink. These findings were robust across gender, age, and to a large extent across different areas of alcohol related problems. Cognitive-behavioral functions associated with intelligence, such as social judgement, social inference, and social skills, are proposed as possible moderators of the relationship between intelligence and alcohol-related problems.

Adult↗
PubMed1988

Alcohol expectancies and personality characteristics in young men.

This study examines the relationship between alcohol expectancies and a variety of relevant personality factors among two different samples of young men. The results indicated that for both samples, measures of social anxiety and concern over the evaluation of other people were related to the beliefs that alcohol was a globally positive transforming agent and that alcohol increased social assertiveness. Also, hostility was related to the belief that alcohol increases power and aggression. Several potential explanations and directions for future research are discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed1988

The Preoccupation with Alcohol Scale: development and validation.

The purpose of the present study was to develop a psychometrically sound measure of preoccupation with alcohol in a group of young, heavy drinking men and to examine some correlates of this drinking style. A brief Preoccupation with Alcohol Scale (PAS) was derived that exhibited substantial internal consistency. Data from a sample of the 67 males indicated that higher PAS scores were significantly related to alcohol consumption and frequency of intoxication within many different contextual circumstances. The PAS was also related to alcohol problems after controlling for average daily alcohol consumption and frequency of intoxication, suggesting that scores on the PAS are related to, but not redundant with, level of alcohol consumption. Results from a cross-validation sample provided additional support for these findings. The authors suggest that a preoccupation with alcohol may be a cognitive-behavioral risk factor for the development of severe alcohol problems and alcoholism.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

Psycholinguistic correlates of language predictability in psychiatric interviews.

Applied the cloze technique to patient speech samples that were obtained from tape-recorded initial intake interviews in a psychiatric outpatient clinic. The findings indicated that cloze samples taken from the end of the interview were less predictable than those obtained from the beginning. Correlation with cloze change scores in discussed.

Anxiety↗
PubMed1977

Acculturation and drinking in an Italian American community.

The hypothesis that drinking practices among Italian Americans become more Americanized with successive generations was tested. In general, it was found that aspects of drinking behavior from both Italy and America were selected to form a third distinct drinking pattern.

Acculturation↗
PubMed1975

Sex of siblings of male alcoholics.

Research conducted with general population samples has demonstrated the importance of sex of siblings in the formation of sex-role identification and in the development of sex-role conflict. Information on early family structure was collected from 207 white male alcoholic inpatients. Among those reared in intact families with at least two older siblings, 65 had a second-older brother. This difference cannot be explained by variation in family size, differential sex ratios in birth rates, or greater availability of women in the sibships of the alcoholics. It is consistent with a model that postulates that alcoholism in men may express dependency conflict associated with sex-role identify problems.

Alcoholism↗