Personality and Treatment Pattern of Alcoholism

The 300 alcoholic patients were administered rotter's locus of control scale, Eysenck personality inventory, beck depression inventory, langer's stress scale and lewishon belief inventory, intervention techniques mainly included chemotherapy (managed by psychiatrist) , individual and group counselling. Results revealed internal locus of control, low level of stress, low scores on depression, positive self belief and low extraversion were good predictors of positive treatment outcome. The stress and negative personal belief have been found to be significant predictors of alcoholism. The treatment pattern found that personality is playing significant role in treatment of alcoholism.