Personality characteristics of delinquent subtypes.
A group of juvenile delinquents, classified as neurotic-disturbed, unsocialized-psychopathic, and socialized-subcultural, were compared on the MMPI. The results provided support for the initial classificaton and yielded MMPI profiles suggestive of two personality types: a conflicted, weak-ego delinquent with considerable intrapsychic conflict, and a more traditional posychopathic type, with little apparent anxiety or neurotic symptomatology. These results were replicated with a cross-validation sample.
D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders; D010551:Personality; D012940:Social Problems