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Defensiveness in female college students and its impact on their MAST and CAGE scores.(alcoholism screening tests)(Report)

Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling

| October 01, 2007 | Laux, John M.; Salyers, Kathleen M.; Jones, Amy L. | COPYRIGHT 2007 American Counseling Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

This study found a statistically significant inverse relationship between defensiveness and female college students' Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (M. L. Selzer, 1971) and CAGE (J. A. Ewing, 1984) scores. Female college students who produce negative screening scores were more defensive than those whose alcohol use screens were positive.

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College student alcohol use is a serious problem (Collins, Koutsky, Morsheimer, & MacLean, 2001). Approximately 40% of college students drink heavily at least once over any given 2-week period, while 22% do so three or more times in the same time period (O'Malley & Johnston, 2002; Wechsler, Lee, Kuo, & ...

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