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Personality, Role Strains, and Alcoholism: Key Pittman as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Betty Glad
Betty Glad*
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Department of Politics, New York University, New York, NY 10003
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Leadership roles, as this study suggests, may lead to breakdowns in individuals who have performed well in more routine positions. When the demand for creativity is high, but the routes to success ambiguous and the end goals controverted, vulnerable individuals may take refuge in drink and engage in public displays which undermine their performance. Such individuals may continue to provide positive contributions to national policy formation. Their loss of control, however, even if it is only episodic, is likely to cause significant others in the environment to depreciate their entire role performance, contributing further to their loss of influence.

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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 7 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Medicine and Political Behavior , August 1988 , pp. 18 - 32
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