Clinical indicators of personality in adolescence
Keywords:
Personalidad, Adolescencia, Indicadores clínicosAbstract
The objective of this study; it is to characterize the presence of clinical and content personality indicators in adolescent students. Through the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Form A. The sample is formed by 69 adolescents secondary school students, with aged from 14 to 17 years, including men and women, middle and high socioeconomic status, from Barranquilla. The information analyses with SSPSS, 19.0 version for the analysis of descriptive statistics. The results show valid profiles and they are consistent with previous research than according to the population; can be differentiated normal population and population with clinical indicators of personality. In some scales, although, the scores are higher than it had found in other similar groups, accounting of the variations introduced by the context and actual sociocultural dynamics, scores are higher particularly in women. Clinical characteristics more significant are schizophrenia, hypomania, masculinity-feminity and psychastenia; while scores in content scales are more significant for Bizarre Mentation, Obsessiveness and Anxiety
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
The Editor and/or publisher submitting the current journal information, or article, hereby confirms: 1) the author’s participation in the work; 2) the author’s approval to be referred to as the author; and 3) the author’s acceptance to all the conditions included in the Copyright Assignment provision herein included. The author (hereinafter referred to as Assignor) hereby irrevocably transfers and assigns, at no cost, to the Revista Psicología del Caribe of the Psychology School at Universidad del Norte - ISSN: 2011-7485 - (hereinafter referred to as Assignee) all rights, titles and interests, including all copyrights in Colombia and throughout the World, related to the submitted article.
The Assignor acknowledges that he/she is the owner/creator and the article is original. The Assignor declares that the article had not, is not, or will not be submitted elsewhere for print or electronic publication. In such an event, the Editor of the Revista Psicología del Caribe should be notified, in writing, and his/her response is required prior to evaluating the submitted article. The Assignor swears there is no impediment that prevents this Copyright Assignment. The Assignor consents that he/she may be held accountable for any copyright violations, plagiarism, or any other claim that may surge.
In consideration of this provision, the Assignee is authorized to copy, reprint, distribute, publish, and commercialize the submitted article through electronic, digital, of paper means. However, the Assignee is obligated to comply with the moral rights of the author, as established in the Act 23 of 1982, art. 30.
All articles published in Psicología desde el Caribe and its contents are under Creative Commons license CC BY. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
