Personality profile and drug use in school adolescents
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https://doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.346Keywords:
Personality, Adolescents, AddictionAbstract
The objective of this research is to describe and identify personality styles, concerns, and clinical syndromes in adolescents in San Luis City, Argentina, and to make an approach to the problems of addiction. The proportion of adolescents presenting addictive substance use patterns is calculated in order to establish comparisons between user and nonuser groups. Three assessment instruments were used: The Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI, 1993), the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT, OMS; 1993) and an ad-hoc Drug Addiction Identification Questionnaire (DAIQ). These were administered to a sample of 203 school adolescents, males and females between 15 and 19 years of age, in the period between June and September 2004. Results show that alcohol and tobacco are the addictive substances most frequently used by the adolescents in the sample. Approximately two out of three adolescents have consumed alcohol in their lifetime, and 18% of the population consumes a harmful or risky amount of this substance. The results suggest that significant differences exist between the group of adolescent substance users and the nonuser group on almost every scale used to evaluate personality, a different pattern being observed in each group.References
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