What is it about?
This paper focuses on personality and defensive functioning in Alcohol Use Disorder women. It indicates specificities and predictive factors in terms of defense mechanisms and personality dimensions. These features allow to better understand how these women and provide treatment more appropriate.
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Why is it important?
Most studies on alcohol are performed in mix gender sample. To our knowledge, this is the first study to analyse big five personality dimensions and defense styles only in a group of women. Our results confirm that it is necessary to establish specific therapies based on gender because of female specificities.
Perspectives
It is necessary to develop this type of study to larger samples. It would be interesting to actually think about psychotherapies by gender (support group for women with alcohol, work on representations, thoughts, behaviors, ...) in order to offer them more likely to get out from the disease.
Ph. D Aurélien Ribadier
Universite Paris Descartes
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This page is a summary of: Personality and Defense Styles: Clinical Specificities and Predictive Factors of Alcohol Use Disorder in Women, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, October 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2016.1234089.
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