Alcoholic Parents - Neurotic Kids
An 11-year study of the lives of nearly 500 MU students reveals the connectione between alcoholic parents and the neurosis of their children.
The study, “Family History of Alcoholism and the Stability of Personality in Young Adulthood,” by Kenneth Sher, a clinical psychology professor at MU, assessed the relationship between family history of alcoholism and personal stability.
Sher defines neuroticism as the tendency to experience negative emotions.Sher studied the normative psychological changes in subjects using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.
What the researchers found out is the sad truth telling us that much of what the scientists were seeing was likely a continuation of what had been set in place before the child was ever born.
Question now remains, why everyone’s becoming less neurotic!