Validation of the tridimensional personality questionnaire in a sample of male drug users

摘要: Abstract One hundred seventy-three male drug using volunteers for drug-related studies completed the Cloninger Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), with most of these S s also completing Eysenck Questionnaire, I.7, Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, Symptom Check List 90, Elliott-Huizinga Lifetime Criminality Measure, Diagnostic Interview Schedule DSM-III, and Disorders Questionnaire. TPQ novelty seeking was correlated impulsivity, aggression, criminality, harm avoidance introversion, neuroticism, low venturesomeness, high psychological distress, while reward dependence extraversion, psychoticism, empathy. With possible exception seeking, scales did not, as predicted by Cloninger, correlate specific personality disorders or alcohol abuse. The rationale construction generally not supported in present sample.