Date of Award

1998

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

Psychology

First Advisor

Pamela Nickels

Second Advisor

Laura Burnell

Third Advisor

Mary Utley

Abstract

Research is controversial in finding the role that parental alcoholism plays on an individual's self-esteem. Some results have shown that alcoholism directly effects a person 's self-esteem whereas, other results have found family dysfunction of an alcoholic to effect self-esteem. The Children of Alcoholics Screening Test and The Self-Esteem Inventory were administered to 52 college students. No significant relationship between parental alcoholism and self-esteem was found . This finding is in agreement with most of the research on adult children of alcoholics .

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Psychology Commons

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