Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Anuradha Wats ¹, Suman Kumar ², Prabhawati Shukla ³, Deapti Mishra ⁴, Pramod Gupta ⁵

Affiliations
1 Pt. Ravi Shanker Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, IN
2 National Institute of Psychiatrey, Delhi, IN
3 Department of Psychology, Pt. Ravi Shanker Shukla University, Raipur, IN
4 Department of Clinical Psychology, Post Graduate Institute of Behavioral & Medical Sciences, Raipur, IN
5 Central India Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Dewada, Rajnadgaon, Chhattisgarh, IN

Abstract

The extent of alcohol use and related problems has a significant impact on public health, which exists in some form or the other in most of the societies all over the world. Alcohol is popularly thought to be the result of an anxious, dependent, unstable personality. Sample of the study comprised of 120 alcohol abusers & 120 non-abusers based on experimental & control group design. Groups were assessed and evaluated using CAZE and SDPI. Samples were collected from CIIMHANS, Devada. Alcoholic group was found to be significantly low on all the variables of Personality Dimension as compared to non -abusers. Also alcohol dependence is 3 to 4 times higher in close relatives of people with alcohol dependence. These results suggest that alcohol abusers lead disturbed emotional life, lack adequate depth of feeling, have degraded social identity and low achievement.

Keywords

Personality Dimensions, Family Addiction.

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