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These authors assessed 116 sober chronic alcoholic (SC) males (aged 21-60 years), 50 acutely intoxicated male nonalcoholics (INs) (mean age 25.9 years), and 58 sober nonalcoholics (SNs) (average age 32.4 years) along the psychological dimensions of anxiety, hostility. social alienation-personal disorganization, separation, guilt, diffuse anxiety and inward hostility by means of the content analysis of speech. Average cognitive impairment scores were found to be significantly greater among INs than SCs and significantly greater in SCs than in Sns. SCs also had a significantly higher score than SNs on depression, social alienation-personal disorganization, separation, guilt, diffuse anxiety, and inward hostility. These results indicate that the general mental health, including cognitive function, of SCs was clearly impaired when compared to SNs.

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Gottschalk, L.A., Eckardt, M.J., Pautler, C.P., Wolf, R.J., Terman, S.A.. Cognitive impairment scales derived from verbal samples. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 24: 6-19, 1983.