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Defining The Personality Characteristics Of Delinquent Adolescent Recividists, Barbara J. Sulik
Defining The Personality Characteristics Of Delinquent Adolescent Recividists, Barbara J. Sulik
PCOM Psychology Dissertations
This study was done to provide basic empirical data on the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory with the focus on establishing a personality profile for recidivistic juvenile offenders. The subjects of this study consisted of four groups of male and female adolescents between the ages of 15 and 17 years. The control group (n = 50) consisted of adolescents not adjudicated either delinquent or dependent. The dependent group (n = 50) consisted of adolescents not adjudicated delinquent and fitting the diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder. The delinquent group (n = 50) consisted of adolescents that were diagnosed as conduct disordered and …