Cj. Hardwick et al., ARE ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS UNIQUE - A STUDY OF OBJECT RELATIONSAND REALITY TESTING, International journal of the addictions, 30(5), 1995, pp. 525-539
This self-report questionnaire study revealed that adult children of a
lcoholics (ACAs, n = 49) were significantly different from adult child
ren from normal families (ACNs, n = 55) on five of nine Bell Object Re
lations Reality Testing Inventory (BORRTI; Bell, 1988) scales and from
adult children from dysfunctional families (ACDs, n = 48) on the Real
ity Testing summary score. Both ACAs and ACDs were similar to each oth
er and different from ACNs on Insecure Attachment and on two family ba
ckground ratings-perceived quality of paternal and maternal caregiving
. Discussion of these results plus separate exploratory regression ana
lyses followed.