[Studies on individual characters of juvenile delinquents in Fujian province].
Ashenk's Character Questionnaire was adopted to study the relationship between juvenile delinquency and individual characters. 621 delinquents at the age of 13-19 and 1371 school students (as control group) were questioned, and results were statistically analyzed. For male delinquents of 16-19, scores of extroversion, psychosomatic and nervosity were significantly higher than for control group (P < 0.01). For male delinquents of 13-15, scores of psychosomatic and nervosity were significantly higher than for control group (P < 0.01). For female delinquents of 16-19, score of nervosity was lower than for control group (P < 0.05). Different types of delinquency had no statistical relations with characters. The study reveals that characters of psychosomatic and nervosity might be related with male delinquent crimes, and that stabilization with female delinquent crimes.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002605:Character; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires