Silvia L Y, Sorell G T, Busch-Rossnagel N A
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.
J Subst Abuse. 1988;1(1):55-65. doi: 10.1016/s0899-3289(88)80008-7.
Sixty alcoholic and 60 nonalcoholic women were compared on six variables chosen to represent the biological, psychological, and sociocultural approaches to alcoholism research. Significant differences were found between the two groups on all variables. Compared to the nonalcoholic women, the alcoholic women had more alcoholic relatives, had been treated for more health problems, were more depressed, had lower levels of self-esteem, were more deeply invested in meeting stereotypical feminine sex-role expectations, and perceived themselves as less successful in meeting the expectations of significant others. Scores on four variables--depression, number of alcoholic relatives, treatment for health problems, and meeting others' expectations--made linear contributions to discriminating the groups. These results suggest that alcoholism in women is a multifactorial problem and that theory-guided research may be more useful in elucidating the etiology of female alcoholism than unidimensional and/or atheoretical approaches. Clinical implications of the results are also discussed.
对60名酗酒女性和60名不酗酒女性在六个变量上进行了比较，这些变量旨在代表酗酒研究中的生物学、心理学和社会文化方法。在所有变量上，两组之间均发现了显著差异。与不酗酒女性相比，酗酒女性有更多酗酒的亲属，因更多健康问题接受过治疗，更抑郁，自尊水平更低，在满足传统女性性别角色期望方面投入更深，并且认为自己在满足重要他人期望方面不太成功。抑郁、酗酒亲属数量、健康问题治疗情况以及满足他人期望这四个变量的得分对区分两组做出了线性贡献。这些结果表明，女性酗酒是一个多因素问题，而且与一维和/或无理论依据的方法相比，理论指导的研究在阐明女性酗酒的病因方面可能更有用。还讨论了这些结果的临床意义。
