MMPI characteristics of college freshman males who later became alcoholics.

Compared the MMPI scores of 32 college freshman males later hospitalized as alcoholics with scores of 148 control male classmates for clinical, content scale, and item differences. The prealcoholics were significantly higher on the Psychopathic Deviate, Hypomania and F scales. It is concluded that the college prealcoholic is more likely to be impulsive, nonconforming, and gregarious but is otherwise not grossly maladjusted compared to his peers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)