[Socio-psychological aspects in marriages of alcoholic women]

In a controlled study during two years we have collected psychological and sociological data on partners of chronic female alcoholics by making use of a semistandardized interview (80 items were evaluated by program Dial and the input scales of Spitzer and his decision logic), of the Freiburger-Persönlichkeits-Inventar (FPI) and of the Hawie-Dahl-test, a German abbreviated version of the Wechsler-Bellevue-Intelligence-test. Furthermore we investigated the interpersonal perception in the marriage of the female alcoholic by a semantic differential. The relatively small number of subjects and controls emphasizes the considerable problems as far to the methodial implications of such a study. Therefore we have to interpretate cautiously our results. We may plead for the hypothese, that the husband of the chronic female alcoholic already from the beginning of the marriage had fifficulties in the realisation of his male role and beyond this that the partnership of the chronic female alchoholic is evidently disturbed by distortion of the interpersonal perception. Finally the interpretation of our results is disucssed with regard to the special approach of examination.