IDEATIONAL FLEXIBILITY AMONG ALCOHOL DEPENDENT AND NORMAL MALES USING RORSCHACH MOVEMENT RESPONSES

Abstract

COVID – 19 Pandemic is the global challenge we are facing now with the most severe hit on almost all life facets that we had ever seen. Even though we won’t be able to envisage all domains of the post COVID World, the mental hygiene of individuals should be addressed at mostly. Escalated complications as well as worries, will be a highlighted feature of post COVID world. Immature coping strategy like substance abuse, can be adapted by huge population to deal with these types of escalations. In India a high prevalence of alcohol dependency has been previously reported by enormous studies. At this juncture, this research was designed to study the ideational flexibility among normal males and males diagnosed with alcohol dependency syndrome as per ICD-10 diagnostic criteria. Flexibility of an individual to alter the attitudes or values which have been conceptualized from information or inputs can be termed as Ideational flexibility. In this cross-sectional study, Purposive Sampling Method was used to collect data from 30 male out patients diagnosed with alcohol dependency syndrome as per ICD-10 diagnostic criteria and 30 males as control group, aged between 35 and 50 years. Rorschach Ink Blot test was administrated for the purpose. This projective test was individually administrated to patients and the control group. Exner Comprehensive System was utilized for interpretation and scoring of Rorschach protocols. Chi-Square test has been used for data analyses using SPSS 17. Results revealed that ideational sets and values of alcohol dependent males are well fixed and relatively inflexible than normal groups. Propositions of findings for an integrated psychotherapy to address this less flexible cognitive ideation among substance abusers were also discussed.