Psychological characteristics of juvenile alcohol and drug users

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether personality tests could differentiate between alcohol and drug users among juvenile offenders. The subjects were 108 Icelandic juvenile offenders who had been given conditional discharge. The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and the Gough S...

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Published inJournal of adolescence (London, England.) Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 41 - 46
Main Authors SIGURDSSON, JON F., GUDJONSSON, GISLI H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 01.02.1996
Academic Press for the Association for the Psychiatric Study of Adolescents
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects
Adolescents
Alcohol Abuse
Alcohol use
Delinquency
Drug Abuse
Eysenck Personality Inventory
Gough Socialization Scale
Iceland
Juvenile delinquency
Lying
Personality
Personality tests
Psychological Characteristics
Psychological tests
Socialization
Substance abusers
Traits
Young people
Iceland
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Summary:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether personality tests could differentiate between alcohol and drug users among juvenile offenders. The subjects were 108 Icelandic juvenile offenders who had been given conditional discharge. The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and the Gough Socialisation Scale were administered to all subjects. The results indicate that the subjects who were classified as drug users or frequent alcohol users scored significantly lower than the other juveniles on the Gough Socialisation Scale and significantly higher on the EPQ lie scale.
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ISSN:0140-1971
1095-9254
DOI:10.1006/jado.1996.0004