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Peer reviewedCarroll, Jane J.; Robinson, Bryan E.; Flowers, Claudia – Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 2002
Marital estrangement, positive feelings toward spouses, and locus of control among a national sample of 323 female counselors who were either married or formerly married to alcohol-abusing or to non-alcohol-abusing male partners were examined. Statistically significant differences between groups were found. (Contains 36 references.) (Author)
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alienation, Females, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedRobinson, Bryan E.; Carroll, Jane E.; Flowers, Claudia – American Journal of Family Therapy, 2001
Compared a sample of spouses of workaholics and spouses of nonworkaholics on ratings of marital estrangement, positive feelings toward husband, and locus of control. Spouses of workaholics reported greater marital estrangement and less positive affect towards husbands and higher external locus of control than did spouses of nonworkaholics. (BF)
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Locus of Control, Marital Instability, Marital Satisfaction
