Correlates of problem drinking among young Japanese women: Personality andearly experiences

Citation
T. Kitamura et al., Correlates of problem drinking among young Japanese women: Personality andearly experiences, COMP PSYCHI, 40(2), 1999, pp. 108-114
Citations number
47
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Clinical Psycology & Psychiatry
Journal title
COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHIATRY
ISSN journal
0010440X → ACNP
Volume
40
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
108 - 114
Database
ISI
SICI code
0010-440X(199903/04)40:2<108:COPDAY>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Problem drinking patterns were measured by the CAGE questionnaire among 90 currently drinking young Japanese women who were recently recruited by a Ja panese company. Problem drinking was examined in terms of personality (temp erament and character as defined by Cloninger) and early life experiences ( perceived parental behavior, parental abusive behavior, being bullied at sc hool, and positive and negative life events experienced before the age of 1 6), Multiple regression analysis revealed that problem drinking could be pr edicted by a set of personality scores, early death of a close friend, and the interaction of the death of a close friend and low explorative excitabi lity (novelty-seeking component 1). This suggests that problem drinking in young women is partly determined by both personality and negative life even ts during childhood, Copyright (C) 1999 by W.B. Saunders Company.