91 male alcoholics were assigned to one of four groups according to chronological age. Discriminant analysis using 15 experimental scales as variables indicated that the percentage of correctly classified alcoholics was approximately equivalent with the results of an earlier study by Faulstich, et al. employing the 10 clinical and three validity scales as predictors. These findings are discussed in reference to directions for further research.
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