Article: Meta-Analysis of Social Relationships and Posttreatment Drinking Outcomes: Comparison of Relationship Structure, Function and Quality(*).(Statistical Data Included)

IN RECENT YEARS, it has become common to address interpersonal as well as intrapersonal factors in alcoholism treatment programs (Institute of Medicine, 1990; Meyers and Smith, 1995; O'Farrell and Fals-Stewart, 1999), although information on the magnitude of the relationship between interpersonal factors and drinking outcomes is inconsistent. This article provides a conceptually based meta-analytic review and synthesis of some of the findings of past research in order to examine the association (correlation) between alcoholism treatment drinking outcomes and social relationships. This report analyzes how components of social relationships (structure, function and quality) ...

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