ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to determine if there are significant differences between first-time and recidivist runaway residents of a county center for juvenile status offenders. A total of 149 subjects (34 males and 115 females) between the ages of 12 and 16 were administered the Reading section of the High School Personality Questionnaire. Demography data were obtained from each subject's intake interview form. A stepwise multiple discrimination analysis resulted in the selection of 8 variables that discriminate between first-time and recidivist runaways. The 8 discriminant variables characterized the recidivist runaway as an urban, Caucasian youth who has had previous contact with an agency, has stayed at the center an average of 13.6 days, has lower general intelligence, is less objective and less self-sufficient, and is at risk of becoming psychotic or delinquent.
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Personality , Runaway Behavior , Adolescent , Child , Diagnosis, Differential , Ethnicity , Female , Humans , Intelligence Tests , Juvenile Delinquency/diagnosis , Juvenile Delinquency/psychology , Life Change Events , Male , Models, Psychological , Personality Inventory , Psychotic Disorders/diagnosis , Psychotic Disorders/psychology , Recurrence , Risk Factors , Urban PopulationABSTRACT
The relative effects of maternal depression, child gender, and child psychiatric status on mothers' ratings of their children were assessed in a study of the validity of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Both maternal depression and gender were found to be significantly associated with mothers' ratings of their children on the CBCL. Nevertheless, mothers' ratings continued to differentiate groups of children with and without psychiatric problems even after the variance accounted for by maternal depression and child gender was removed. These findings support the criterion validity of the CBCL, and point also to the importance of assessing parents as part of the clinical evaluation of children.
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Depression/psychology , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , Mothers/psychology , Aggression , Child , Female , Humans , Juvenile Delinquency/diagnosis , Male , Mental Disorders/psychology , Personality Inventory , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
A comparative study of the syndrome of fantasy-making was carred out in 65 juvenile delinquents (psychopathy, early organic lesions of the brain, schizophrenia). The authors elucidated nosologically nonspecific signs of pathological fantasy-making (persistent inclination, superworship content of fantasies, readiness to transformation, incorrigible behaviour, etc.), peculiarities of the clinical picture and the time-course of the syndrome in each of the groups. A close correlation was found between the content of fantasies and the nature of antisocial behaviour of adolescents.
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Fantasy , Forensic Psychiatry , Juvenile Delinquency/diagnosis , Adolescent , Dangerous Behavior , Female , Humans , Juvenile Delinquency/psychology , Male , Neurocognitive Disorders/diagnosis , Personality Disorders/diagnosis , Schizophrenia/diagnosis , Self Concept , SyndromeSubject(s)
Juvenile Delinquency/diagnosis , Adolescent , Child , Humans , Lie Detection , Male , Psychological Tests/standards , PsychometricsABSTRACT
Clinico-psychopathological traits of non-process forms of deviant behaviour in adolescents were studied in the framework of pathological personality formation. Two variants in the development of the disease were distinguished: favourable and unfavourable. Some differential diagnostic criteria are outlined which permit to delineate this form of borderline pathology from a debut of schizophrenia in adolescency. The study includes a consideration of the disturbed system of relationships of the personality in the adolescents examined.
