J. Vymetal et Gw. Speierer, Mental changes in patients after voluntary alcoholism treatment from the point of view of Rogerian therapy, CESK PSYCHO, 43(2), 1999, pp. 155-164
The research deals with patients dependent on alcohol (F 10.2) who were tre
ated on a voluntary basis by psychotherapeutic and sociotherapeutic methods
in 7 hospitals. For ethical, legal as well as professional reasons it was
impossible to form a control group. Sixty six patients (28 women, 38 men) c
ompleted the Regensburg inventory analysis of incongruities; its statistica
l evaluation was done by SPSS. The aim of the research was to detect pesona
lity changes in patients induced most probably by their hospital stay. As s
tatistically significant (t-test, U-test, alpha adjustment, effect size), p
ositive changes in the following personality variables were detected: the p
atient's self-confidence (p < .001, ES = 1.11), favourable selfconcept incl
uding the ability to tolerate and manage their inner ;incongruities (p < .0
01, ES = .48), an increase of self-congruent experiences (p < .001, ES = .4
5) and a decrease of insufficiency feelings (p < .001, ES = .40). The findi
ngs are considered as preliminary and it is necessary to prove them by furt
her research.