Abstinence and well-being among members of Alcoholics Anonymous: personal experience and social perceptions |
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Authors: | Kairouz S Dubé L |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of Montreal. sylvia.kairouz@umontreal.ca |
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Abstract: | The authors examined the subjective experience of well-being (WB) among abstinent Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) members and social perceptions of an abstinent alcoholic's WB among 3 nonalcoholic French-Canadian samples: male police officers, Catholic nuns, and university women. The short-term abstinent AA members, along with the university women, reported the lowest self-ratings of WB, whereas the Catholic nuns reported the highest. However, among the abstinent AA members, the level of WB was positively related to the length of abstention. The 3 nonalcoholic groups evaluated an abstinent AA member more positively than a nonabstinent alcoholic. These evaluations of an abstinent AA member converged with the AA members' self-evaluations on the measure of WB. |
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