This fourteen week study used a repeated measures design to compare how three groups of alcoholic women differed on the variables self-esteem, dependency, sex-role conflicts and depression after exposure to Gender-Specific Intervention. Within a university setting, six female and ten male subjects underwent treatment as well as pre-, post-, and follow up testing. It was hypothesized that women in the gender-specific group would demonstrate significant increases in self-esteem and significant decreases in dependency, sex-role conflicts and depression as measured by test scores on the Self-Esteem Questionnaire, Rotter I-E Scale and the BM Sex-Role and Beck Depression Inventories respectively. Women in the gender-mixed and comparison control groups were not predicted to show significant changes. The hypothesis concerning self-esteem was supported; the remaining hypotheses were not
