ANTISOCIAL, PERSONALITY-TRAITS AND PATIENTS SATISFACTION WITH TREATMENT FOR ADDICTION

The over-all satisfaction with treatment for addiction (sum of scores on 11 items of a questionnaire) by 50 addicts and their self-reported confidence in remaining abstinent were unrelated to scores on MMPI-2 s cales (all classical clinical and validity scales, 15 content scales a nd 7 research scales) except to reports of shyness on the Social Disco mfort Scale: patients characterizing themselves as shy gave the higher ratings of satisfaction with treatment (r=.33). We note that our prev ious finding using the MMPI-2, i.e., that less socially responsible an d more rebellious patients provided lower satisfaction ratings, aias n ot replicated for this sample of addicts.