Femininity of Alcoholic Women's Preferences on Edwards Personal Preference Schedule

Abstract

Edwards Personal Preference Schedule scores of 20 women alcoholics at an outpatient clinic were compared with scores of Edwards' normative groups of women and men and with scores of 20 male alcoholics. Compared to the normative group of women, the alcoholic women were significantly higher on Intraception and Heterosexuality, significantly lower on Affiliation, and approached being significantly lower on Order (p < .10). With the exception of Affiliation, these results cross-validate results of previous research. The alcoholic women's profile of score means was very similar to the profile of normal women but not similar to the profiles of either alcoholic men or normal men. It was concluded that the conscious preferences of women alcoholics are no less feminine than those of normal women.