TY - JOUR
T1 - Correlates of problem drinking among young Japanese women
T2 - Personality and early experiences
AU - Kitamura, Toshinori
AU - Kijima, Nobuhiko
AU - Sakamoto, Shinji
AU - Tomoda, Atsuko
AU - Suzuki, Nobuko
AU - Kazama, Yumi
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported in part by a grant from the Research Conference on Alcohol and Health and a grant from the Yasuda Life Welfare Foundation.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Problem drinking patterns were measured by the CAGE questionnaire among 90 currently drinking young Japanese women who were recently recruited by a Japanese company. Problem drinking was examined in terms of personality (temperament and character as defined by Cloninger) and early life experiences (perceived parental behavior, parental abusive behavior, being bullied at school, and positive and negative life events experienced before the age of 16). Multiple regression analysis revealed that problem drinking could be predicted by a set of personality scores, early death of a close friend, and the interaction of the death of a close friend and low explorative excitability (novelty-seeking component 1). This suggests that problem drinking in young women is partly determined by both personality and negative life events during childhood.
AB - Problem drinking patterns were measured by the CAGE questionnaire among 90 currently drinking young Japanese women who were recently recruited by a Japanese company. Problem drinking was examined in terms of personality (temperament and character as defined by Cloninger) and early life experiences (perceived parental behavior, parental abusive behavior, being bullied at school, and positive and negative life events experienced before the age of 16). Multiple regression analysis revealed that problem drinking could be predicted by a set of personality scores, early death of a close friend, and the interaction of the death of a close friend and low explorative excitability (novelty-seeking component 1). This suggests that problem drinking in young women is partly determined by both personality and negative life events during childhood.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0010-440X(99)90114-1
DO - 10.1016/S0010-440X(99)90114-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 10080257
AN - SCOPUS:0033050637
SN - 0010-440X
VL - 40
SP - 108
EP - 114
JO - Comprehensive Psychiatry
JF - Comprehensive Psychiatry
IS - 2
ER -
