Further comment and analyses of data from 103 alcoholics indicate less internal consistency in alcoholics’ responding than in normals, no tendency for innovative alcoholics to engage in more hostile/aggressive behaviors than adaptor alcoholics, and a likelihood that more than three factors for alcoholics would be required to account for variance comparable to that for nonalcoholic persons.
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