Some Characteristics of Alcoholic Marriages Differentiated by Level of Deviance

A sample of 262 women married to alcoholics were asked about their childhood, courtship, and marital experiences, stressing their husbands' drinking behavior and their own attitudes toward marriage and alcoholism. The sample was divided into two based on the level of social or economic associated with the husband's drinking, and comparisons were made between the two deviance groups on personal and marital characteristics. The group with more associated with the husband's drinking indicated more disturbance in their background and less successful marital outcome

Courtship · Developmental psychology · Deviance (statistics · Marital status · Population · Sociology · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Psychology · Social Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes