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Personality Characteristics of Alcoholic Children of Alcoholics

Thomas McKenna, Roy Pickens

SUMMARY. Among 1929 alcoholics, the number of alcoholic biological parents was directly related to elevations on MMPI measures of psychopathology, especially aggression. Subjects with only alcoholic fathers did not differ from subjects with only alcoholic mothers, nor did the personality measures reveal any sex-of-child by sex-of-alcoholic-parent interactions.