| Abstract: | The authors examine the scope of alcoholic comorbidity by evaluating the full range of coexisting Axis II personality disorders (PDs) in conjunction with selected Axis I disorders. Prevalence data are reported for a large sample of male, Vietnam-era military veterans. Higher rates of PD were found among alcohol-disordered individuals and those with Axis I disorders when compared with no-diagnosis and other Axis I-diagnosed control groups. The significance of PD among alcohol-disordered subjects was demonstrated further by a pattern of decrements in measures of adaptive functioning related to alcoholism, other Axis I, and Axis II diagnoses. Less than one-third of the alcohol-disordered subjects in this sample were without a coexisting Axis I or Axis II disorder. |
