State hospital alcoholic patients of both sexes were compared on the basis of demographic and MMPI characteristics. Men and women were basically similar with regard to age, educational level, intelligence, and abstract reasoning ability. Men and women also showed a similar pattern of divergence from their counterparts in the general population on the MMPI scales.
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