[The self concept and personality structure of alcohol intoxicated drivers: how do they see themselves, and how are they judged by others?].

Assessing the problem of "alcohol in road traffic" it becomes apparent that most offenders have high BACs (in excess of 1.6 per mille) and that they are repeating offenders. It can therefore be assumed that those people are drink-drivers, which means that, when assessing the offence, the offender's personality as a whole has to be taken into consideration. The DUI offenders themselves usually justify the offence by balming it on the circumstances of a given situation. On the basis of this discrepancy, the published study deals with the question of whether there are any differences between the way DUI offenders judge their personality and self concept and the way other people do. This also leads to the questions of whether the number of offences play a role or not. The self image of 60 male DUI offenders was rated by means of the Giessen test and the Frankfurt self concept scales "problem solving", "confidence in behaviour and decision making", as well as "judgement by others". For the outside judgement, 60 male volunteers were asked to judge DUI convicted drivers. It showed that the DUI convicted drivers assessed their personality to be no different than that of the average person. Their self concept was characterised by positive attributes. However, the outside judgement showed them to be less socially responsive, lacking self control, as well as rather dominant, depressive, reserved and rather inhibited in heterosexual relationships. The self judgement changes with an increasing number of offences, as does the outside judgement to an even greater extend. The latter turns into a more negative judgement. Regarding the self concepts, only the outside judgement proved to be more negative. The number of convictions didn't influence the DUI offenders' self estimation.