Abstract

BENITEZ BARRAZA, Martha; SANCHEZ MONTERO, Evelyn  and  SERRANO RAMIREZ, Marleyn. Clinical indicators of personality in adolescence. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.2, pp.235-253. ISSN 0123-417X.

The objective of this study was 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 adolescent secondary school students, aged from 14 to 17, including men and women, middle and high socioeconomic status from Barranquilla. The information was analyzed with SSPSS, 19.0 version for the analysis of descriptive statistics. The results show valid profiles and they are consistent with previous research that according to the population; can be differentiated into normal population and population with clinical indicators of personality. In some scales, although, the scores are higher than the ones found in other similar groups, accounting for the variations introduced by the context and actual sociocultural dynamics, scores are higher particularly in women. The most significant clinical characteristic are schizophrenia, hypomania, masculinity-feminity and psychastenia; while scores in content scales are more significant for Bizarre Mentation, Obsessiveness and Anxiety

Keywords : Personality; Adolescence Clinical Indicators; MMPI-A; Personality Disorders.

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