Prediction of the Number of Addicts’ Excuses for Using Addictive Substances - Abstract
16 males and 16 females age 18 and older at Morris Village (a SC State Inpatient Treatment Center) participated in a study attempting to use the PAI to predict their
number of external excuses for using addictive substances. This research showed several PAI scales by themselves reliably and significantly predicted their number of
excuses. Further, several PAI scales together reliably and significantly predicted a large amount of the total variance. There were gender differences in mean number of
excuses but an Analysis of Variance failed to show reliability or significance.