ABSTRACT
Investigated a newly developed MMPI scale--the Institutionalized Chronic Alcohol Scale (ICAS)--designed to separate alcoholics from neurotics. With a sample of 75 alcoholic and 50 neurotic male Veterans Administration Hospital inpatients, the ICAS was found to separate the two groups, correctly identifying 78%, but was slightly less effective than two other previously used alcoholism scales by MacAndrew (Amac) and Holmes (Am). Data from 30 male Veterans Administration Hospital heroin addicts lend some support to the statement, which appears in the original article, that the ICAS should not be used to distinguish between alcoholics and people other than neurotics.
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Alcoholism/diagnosis , MMPI , Adult , Diagnosis, Differential , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Heroin Dependence/diagnosis , Hospitalization , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Neurotic Disorders/diagnosis , PsychometricsABSTRACT
In a group of 711 non-clinic individuals, a self-administered questionnaire gave data on the life history of headache of defined severity and psychological states as defined by the Zung SDS and the Bendig-Taylor test. When the population was divided into those with and those without a history of disabling or severe headache, significantly higher scores for the former were found on both 'anxiety' and 'depression' tests--for both sexes, at all ages. Zung SDS scores fell from youth to middle age, then rose in old age. When the frequency and duration of headache were studied in association with psychological tests, the most significant association was found between headache frequency and depression scores.
