[Personality changes in patients after voluntary alcoholism therapy from the aspect of the Rogers method]

The research deals with patients dependent on alcohol (F 10.2) who were treated on a voluntary basis by psychotherapeutic and sociotherapeutic methods in seven hospitals. For ethical, legal as well as professional reasons it was impossible to form a control group. Sixty six patients (28 women, 38 men) were put to the Regensburg inventory analysis of incongruities, its statistical evaluation was done by SPSS. The aim of the research was to detect personally changes in patients induced most probably by their hospital stay. As statistically significant (t-test, u-test, alpha adjustment, effect size), we detected positive changes in the following personality variables: the patient's self-confidence (p < 0.001, ES = 1.11), favourable self concept including the ability to tolerate and manage their inner incongruities (p < 0.001, ES = 0.48), an increase of self-congruent experiences (p < 0.001, ES = 0.45) and a decrease of insufficiency feelings (p < 0.001, ES = 0.40). We consider our findings as preliminary and it is necessary to prove them by further research.