This study evaluates the relationship between gender, personality, psychopathology and suicidal behaviour among adolescents. For this purpose, across-sectional with adolescent inpatients (N = 92) displaying was designed. Sociodemographic characteristics data related to were collected. In addition, personality clinical severity assessed by administering Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI...

The Jesness Inventory was administered to two groups; one consisting of 100 institutionalised delinquents and the other of 100 students of the school leaving class in a local school. The results suggest that some of the sub-tests of the inventory significantly discriminate between the delinquent and the non-delinquent normal boys.These results have been studied in the light of earlier data of B...

BACKGROUND The way that people explain events may influence aspects of their development and health. A number of studies have reported that there is a positive relationship between pessimism and the risk of poor heath, infectious disease, and early mortality. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of an optimism skills group training (OSGT) on the attribution styles ...

We tested 2 hypotheses derived from Moffitt's (1993) taxonomic theory of antisocial behavior, both of which are central to her explanation for the rise in delinquency during adolescence. We tested whether persistently delinquent individuals become more accepted by their peers during adolescence and whether individuals who abstain from delinquent behavior become less accepted. Participants were ...

BACKGROUND Adolescence denotes a time in which youth begins to experience dangerous behaviors like substance use and delinquency. OBJECTIVES In this study, we investigated the family power structure and identity style in delinquent and non-delinquent juveniles residing in Tehran, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS To accomplish the goal of the study, 80 adolescent delinquents of the correction and...

BACKGROUND Surprisingly little is known about the frequency, stability, and correlates of school fear and truancy based on self-reported data of adolescents. METHODS Self-reported school fear and truancy were studied in a total of N = 834 subjects of the community-based Zurich Adolescent Psychology and Psychopathology Study (ZAPPS) at two times with an average age of thirteen and sixteen year...