Page No 86-94
Deepak Salvi
Alcohol Dependence Syndrome (ADS) is a chronic debilitating disorder which has
significant implication in the development of poor self-concept. Furthermore, family
history of alcoholism especially parental alcoholism also plays a crucial role in the
development of self-concept and may have profound and lasting effects on it. This study
is aimed at exploring the effect of ADS with and without a family history of alcoholism
on self-concept. The family history of alcoholism includes parental alcoholism. The
sample of the study consisted of 120 subjects aged 20-40 years and was divided into
two groups i.e. clinical and normal population. The clinical group consisted of 60 patients
diagnosed as ADS. Purposive and snowballing sampling was used to collect the sample.
A Two-Way Analysis of Variance was employed to study the main and interaction effects
of alcoholism and family history on the variable of self-concept. The results confirmed
that the main and interactive effects of alcoholism and family history were found to be
significant on perceived self-concept among subjects. However, on ideal self-concept,
the interaction effect of alcoholism and family history was found to be non-significant.
Furthermore, results revealed the significant main effect of alcoholism and family history
to be in the discrepancy between perceived and ideal self-concept among subjects, but
the interaction effect was found to be non-significant
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