title: Personality psychopathology, drug use and psychological symptoms in adolescents with substance use disorders and community controls.
abstract: Substance use is a risk behavior that tends to increase during adolescence, a time when part of the personality is still in development. Traditionally, personality psychopathology has been measured in terms of categories, although dimensional models have demonstrated better consistency. This study aimed to analyze differences in personality profiles between adolescents with substance use disorders (SUD n = 74) and matched community controls (MCC n = 74) using the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) dimensional model. Additionally, we compared age at first drug use, level of drug use and internalizing and externalizing symptoms between the groups. In this study, the PSY-5 model has proved to be useful for differentiating specific personality disturbances in adolescents with SUD and community adolescents. The Disconstraint scale was particularly useful for discriminating adolescents with substance use problems and the Delinquent Attitudes facet offered the best differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences Hospital Clinic Universitari of Barcelona , Spain ; Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona , Spain ; Institute of Research in Brain, Cognition and Behavior (IR3c) , Spain.
authors.forename: Ernesto
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Magallón-Neri
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences Hospital Clinic Universitari of Barcelona , Spain.
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Díaz
authors.affiliation: Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona , Spain ; Institute of Research in Brain, Cognition and Behavior (IR3c) , Spain.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Forns
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences Hospital Clinic Universitari of Barcelona , Spain.
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Goti
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences Hospital Clinic Universitari of Barcelona , Spain ; IDIBAPS (Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi Sunyer) , Barcelona , Spain ; Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona , Spain.
authors.forename: Josefina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Castro-Fornieles
keywords: Adolescents; Dimensional; Internalizing–externalizing symptoms; Personality psychopathology five (PSY-5); Substance use disorders