The discrepancy between alcoholics' perceived control and actual skills
(1998) The European Journal of Psychiatry — Vol. 12, n° 4, p. 205-214 (1998)
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- One of the major hindrances to the treatment of alcoholics is their constant attempts to prove to us their ability to cope with their problems, when in fact they cannot cope with them. Such overestimation of subjective control is not often found in other cases of clinical practice. By contracting results from two psychometric tests - the MHLC (Multidimensional Health Locus of Control, Wallston, 1978; a questionnaire which investigates the subjective degree of control in relation to health) and the GEFT (Group Embedded Figures test, Witkin, 1971; a questionnaire which focuses more on actual behavior and field-dependency) - we attempted to highlight this overestimation phenomenon. The results of this study confirm that alcoholics are more prone to subjectively overestimating their sk ills compared to other subjects.
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Zdanowicz, N., Janne, P., Reynaert, C., Vause, M., & Rousseau, J. (1998). The discrepancy between alcoholics’ perceived control and actual skills. The European Journal of Psychiatry, 12(4), 205-214. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/142147 (Original work published 1998)