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Adult children of alcoholic fathers develop compensatory roles in reaction to the dysfunction in the family
(Wampler, Downs & Fischer, 2009). This study is an attempt to identify and develop a scale that would
measure roles played by the adult children of the alcoholic families. For this purpose, 30 adult children of
alcoholic fathers currently receiving in-patient treatment in a rehabilitation center were interviewed to extract a
list of items related to their role playing, which were finalized (122 items) by 5 clinical psychologists and
psychiatrists. Items that got lower than 90% agreement from these experts were removed, leaving the final list
of 97 items, converted into a self-report measure (The Role Identification Scale: RIS) and administered to 202
men and 198 women with the age range of 18-25 (M =21.45,SD= 2.37) years. Principal Component
Exploratory Factor Analysis revealed four factors, namely, Hero, Aggressor, Mascot and Withdrawn. The scale
revealed adequate psychometric properties and suggested that men and women depict these four roles
equivalently in a collectivistic culture. The use of RIS in rehabilitation and counseling of dysfunctional families
due to an alcoholic father is proposed.
Ivan Suneel Samuel, Zahid Mahmood, Sadia Saleem. (2014) The Development of the Role Identification Scale for Adult Children of Alcoholic Fathers, Pakistan Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Volume 12, Issue 1.
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