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.