Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from March 1997

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from March 1997

Some thoughts on limits for prepublication release of information.(Editorial)
March 1, 1997... IN ANY FIELD of research, occasionally a scientific project reaches fruition with the realization that the findings have important implications. When this occurs, the authors are likely to both submit the findings for publication in a journal...

The effects of hypoxia on the bioenergetics of liver in situ in chronic ethanol-treated rats: a noninvasive in vivo 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT. Objective: The effects of hypoxia on bioenergetic parameters of the livers of rats with and without chronic ethanol (CE) treatment has been studied in a totally noninvasive manner, using in vivo [sup.31.P] magnetic resonance...

Individual differences in alcohol responsivity: physiological, psychomotor and subjective response domains.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT. Objective: Psychometrically stable measures of individual differences in response to consuming alcohol were developed as part of an ongoing project investigating "high-tolerant" drinking drivers. The derived measures were correlated...

Assessing the risk for alcoholism among sons of alcoholics.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT. Objective: A low level of response (LR) to alcohol has been shown to predict a high future risk for alcoholism. Studies to date have incorporated both alcoholism family history positive (FHP) and negative (FHN) subjects, but no...

The structure of problem drinking in adulthood: a confirmatory approach.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT. Objective: The structure of Problem drinking in young adults was examined using confirmatory factor analyses to test three models of the relations among Measures of drinking behavior, coping functions of drinking and alcohol-related...

Predictors of help seeking among a longitudinal sample of the general population, 1984-1992.
March 1, 1997... Objective: This article considers the predictors of help-seeking behavior, and the types of help sought among the general population. Method: Longitudinal data are used, collected during in-person interviews with 2,234 (1190) female)...

The Drinking-Related Locus of Control Scale: the factor structure with treatment-seeking outpatients.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT. Objective: The psychometric properties of the Drinking-Related Locus of control Scale (DRIE) were investigated when the distribution of DRIE scores taken from a sample of outpatient men was found to be skewed toward an internal locus...

Predictors of problem drinking and alcohol dependence in a population-based sample of female twins.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT. Objective: To identify characteristics associated with problem drinking (PD) and alcohol dependence (AD) in women. Method: Subjects were 2,163 white women aged 17-55 from the population-based Virginia Twin Registry. Measures were...

Heavy consumption of cigarettes, alcohol and coffee in male twins.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT. Objective: To determine the relative contribution of environmental and genetic influences on the joint distribution of heavy smoking, heavy alcohol use and heavy coffee drinking. Method: Multivariate structural equation modeling in a...

Two varieties of helping in drunk-driving intervention: personal and situational factors.
March 1, 1997... There is a massive body of research on "helping" behavior completed in laboratory or experimental settings (Rabow and Newcomb, 1992). In a summary of this work, Dovidio (1984) argues that the motivational, cognitive and situational factors...

Predicting academic problems in college from freshman alcohol involvement.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT. Objective: The present article examines the relation of problematic alcohol use to collegiate academic problems based on a systematic assessment of problematic alcohol use and college transcript data. The degree to which this...

Self-insurance and worksite alcohol programs: an econometric analysis.
March 1, 1997... Objective: The worksite is an important point of access for alcohol treatment and prevention, but not all firms are likely to find offering alcohol programs profitable. This study attempts to identify at a conceptual and empirical level...

Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder: Psychotherapy and Assessment Strategies.
March 1, 1997... This book is far more comprehensive than its title indicates and covers several additional topics related to substance misuse and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), including history of both disorders, epidemiology and etiology of both...

Challenging Codependency: Feminist Critiques.
March 1, 1997... Few inpatient treatment programs for codependency remain. This the result of a combination of factors including economic and policy shifts in health care delivery systems, and some disillusionment in the chemical dependency community...