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Personality characteristics of high and low aggressive adolescents in residential treatment
Author(s) -
Young I. Louis
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197610)32:4<814::aid-jclp2270320417>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - hostility , psychology , aggression , personality , social desirability , clinical psychology , population , sensitization , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , environmental health , physics , quantum mechanics
Variables related to aggression were explored in a population of psychiatrically disturbed male adolescents in a residential treatment setting. The Marlowe‐Crowne Social Desirability Scale, Daydreaming Questionnaire, Byrne Repression‐Sensitization Scale, and the Buss‐Durkee Hostility Inventory were administered to high and low aggressive patients. Multivariate analyses of the data indicated that high aggressors were significantly lower in their social desirability needs and significantly higher in their daydreaming, hostile attitudes and sensitization than were low aggressive patients. These findings were discussed relative to a greater understanding of aggression in emotionally disturbed adolescents and implications for treatment.