THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY CONTEXT IN ALCOHOLISM

In the present study, 56 chronic alcoholics were compared with56 controls with no excessive drinking habits, all of them male.The drinking habits of their parents were studied, as were parentalrearing, dyadic relations with the spouses, attachment to significantpeople, and the education they gave to their own children. Itwas noted that the alcoholics' parents had heavier drinkinghabits and could have acted as learning models. As regards theother characteristics, the dyadic cohesion, the global scoreof the education received from the father and the personal styleof criticism/rejection in the education of their own childrenwere underlined.