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Title:	Personality psychopathology, drug use and psychological symptoms in adolescents with substance use disorders and community controls
Author:	Magallón Neri, Ernesto Mijail; Díaz, Rosa; Forns, Maria, 1946-; Goti, Javier; Castro Fornieles, Josefina
Other authors:	Universitat de Barcelona
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.
Subject(s):	-Adolescents -Abús de substàncies -Trastorns de la conducta -Psiquiatria -Teenagers -Substance abuse -Behavior disorders -Psychiatry
Rights:	cc-by (c) Magallón Neri, Ernesto Mijail et al., 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es
Document type:	Article Article - Published version
Published by:	PeerJ
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