The questions that materialize in relation to addictive behaviors’ and their relation or non-relation to other addictive behaviors’ has long been debated and discussed. In a study published in The Scandinavian Journal of Psychology this same debate was examined. The article, Do Men with Excessive Alcohol Consumption and Social Stability Have an Addictive Personality?, Provides the reader with data that confirms whether or not men that drink excessively have addictive personalities. In the world today there are many stereotypes that take place and alcohol consumption has its own stigmas assigned. Some relate alcohol to a gateway substance that opens the door to the use of other recreational and addictive substances. Common phrases such as “happy drunk” and “mean drunk” have been assigned to persons whom display certain behaviors while they
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The article states “Our hypothesis that male individuals with excessive alcohol consumption do not have a specific ‘‘addictive’’ personality, was confirmed in this study. Thus, this group as well as the population-based control group had mean values within the normative range in all scales of the KSP. Furthermore the score plot in the PCA did not indicate a between-group separation. Our findings, obtained by either norm group comparisons or through the use of the statistical method of PCA, are thus in agreement with our own previous findings (Berglund et al., 2006; Eriksson et al., 2001a) that individuals with excessive alcohol consumption do not differ in personality patterns from a general reference population as assessed by the Temperament and Character Inventory (Cloninger, Svrakic & Przybeck, 1993). (Berglund, Roman, Balldin, Berggren, Eriksson,, Gustavsson, & Fahlke, 2011, Pg.
The article states “Our hypothesis that male individuals with excessive alcohol consumption do not have a specific ‘‘addictive’’ personality, was confirmed in this study. Thus, this group as well as the population-based control group had mean values within the normative range in all scales of the KSP. Furthermore the score plot in the PCA did not indicate a between-group separation. Our findings, obtained by either norm group comparisons or through the use of the statistical method of PCA, are thus in agreement with our own previous findings (Berglund et al., 2006; Eriksson et al., 2001a) that individuals with excessive alcohol consumption do not differ in personality patterns from a general reference population as assessed by the Temperament and Character Inventory (Cloninger, Svrakic & Przybeck, 1993). (Berglund, Roman, Balldin, Berggren, Eriksson,, Gustavsson, & Fahlke, 2011, Pg.