Scales designed to show individual differences in alcoholics and differences between alcoholics and other groups were developed by factor analytic and empirical methods using personaliry, demographic, and alcohol experience items from the Inventory of Habits and Attitudes (IHA). IHA was constructed by Monroe and Hill as a matched form of their Personal Inventory (PI). PI was designed to measure characteristics of opiate addicts, especially Acceptability for Psychotherapy (AP). Several studies have indicated the utility of AP. A Language of Addiction and General Alcoholic Scale differentiated alcoholics from opiate addicts, mentally ill, and normal Ss by 3 SDs. The factor strucrure of scales was similar in boch alcoholics and nonalcoholics.
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