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The identification and prevalence of characteristic behaviors of adult children of alcoholics

The thesis was designed to identify adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) among a sample of Ball State University students. The prevalence of common characteristic behaviors among adult anonymous survey was administered to two large sections of the Health Science, Fundamentals of Human Health class to obtain a representative sample.The results of the survey identified 21.9 percent of the 288 subjects to be adult children of alcoholics. A combined total of 31.6 percent of the 288 subjects were identified be adult children of problem drinkers and ACOAs. The most prevalent characteristic behavior identified by the ACOA population is statement number six, “I take myself very seriously.” This behavior characteristic was checked by 49.2 percent of the 63 identified ACOAs. The remaining 19 statements also were analyzed to enable the investigator to develop an accurate ACOA profile. / Department of Physiology and Health Science

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/183611
Date January 1988
CreatorsKarlstrom, Karin K.
ContributorsBall State University. Dept. of Physiology and Health Science., Bock, William
Source SetsBall State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
Formatvi, 107 leaves ; 28 cm.
SourceVirtual Press

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