The Comparative Validity of Eleven Alcoholism Typologies(*).

From: Journal of Studies on Alcohol | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: PENICK, ELIZABETH C.; NICKEL, ELIZABETH J.; POWELL, BARBARA J.; LISKOW, BARRY I.; CAMPBELL, JAN; DALE, TAMARA M.; HASSANEIN, RUTH E.; NOBLE, ELIZABETH | Copyright information

Objective: This study directly compared the clinical validity of 11 empirically defined alcoholism typologies to determine whether some typologies are clinically more valid than others. Method: A sample of 360 hospitalized alcoholic men were extensively evaluated at entry into the study and again 1 year later. Twenty-three measures of clinical validity were employed; 15 were postdictive and 8 were predictive. Postdictive retrospective measures obtained at entry into the study included famil...

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