E-ISSN : 2733-4538
The purpose of the present study is to develop the questionnaire that measure the beliefs facilitating alcohol use with Alcohol dependent patients. Through the initial study, twenty one items were finally selected and the psychometric properties of the questionnaire were evaluated. Factor Analysis reveals that the questionnaire has three factors and internal consistency was .73. In the examination of the relations between each factor and alcoholic severity, the 'denial of alcoholic problems' factor was correlated negatively with alcoholic severity. The 'denial of alcoholic problems' factor and the 'helplessness' factor explained the about 39.5% of variances of alcoholic severity. The suggestions and the limitations of this study, and the directions of future study were discussed.