Issue: Vojnosanit Pregl 2016; Vol. 73 (No. 4)
Title
Authors:
Vesna Dukanac, Tamara Džamonja-Ignjatović, Marko Milanović, Branislava Popović-Ćitić
Background/Aim. Adolescence is characterized both by alarge developmental potential and by an increased risk for
emergence of different forms of psychopathology. International
classifications of mental disorders recognize the psychopathology
of adolescence at the age of 15−18 through
the categories of conduct disorders and some forms of addiction:
chemical and non-chemical. The aim of this research
was to analyse the personality structure among four
groups of adolescents manifesting different types of conduct
disorder based on Cloninger’s Psychobiological theory
of personality. Methods. The research sample consisted of
140 respondents at the age of 16−18, divided into five
groups: 30 respondents manifesting socialized conduct disorder,
20 adolescents in conflict with the law, 30 respondents
manifesting abuse of psychoactive substances, 30 respondents
with the problem of the Internet addiction and
30 from general population. The Belgrade Adolescent
Personality Inventory (BAPI) questionnaire was used for
the purpose of assessment of personality. Multivariate
analysis of variance (MANOVA), followed by univariate
analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to examine differences
between the given groups of adolescents. Results.
The results of MANOVA show differences in the personality
structure among the groups, both in the dimensions of
temperament, F (20,418.84) = 2.71, p < 0.001, Wilks’s
lambda 0.67, and in the dimensions of character, F
(12,344.24) = 3.27, p < 0.001, Wilks’s lambda is 0.75. Socialized
conduct disorder is characterized by low selfdirectedness
and average cooperativeness. Adolescents in
conflict with the law have the lowest persistence, together
with low self-directedness and cooperativeness. Adolescents
abusing psychoactive substances have low harm avoidance
and self-transcendence. Adolescents with Internet addiction
are characterized by high novelty seeking (impulsivity and
curiosity), low self-directedness and the lowest cooperativeness.
Conclusion. The results show that the dimensions of
personality can play an important role in etiopathogenesis of
various disorders in adolescents.
