The objective of this study; it is to characterize the presence of clinical and content personality indicators in adolescent students. Through the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Form A. The sample is formed by 69 adolescents secondary school students, with aged from 14 to 17 years, including men and women, middle and high socioeconomic status, from Barranquilla. The information analyses with SSPSS, 19.0 version for the analysis of descriptive statistics. The results show valid profiles and they are consistent with previous research than according to the population; can be differentiated normal population and population with clinical indicators of personality. In some scales, although, the scores are higher than it had found in other similar groups, accounting of the variations introduced by the context and actual sociocultural dynamics, scores are higher particularly in women. Clinical characteristics more significant are schizophrenia, hypomania, masculinity-feminity and psychastenia; while scores in content scales are more significant for Bizarre Mentation, Obsessiveness and AnxietyEl objetivo de este estudio, fue caracterizar la presencia de indicadores clínicos y de contenido de personalidad en una población adolescente, a través del Inventario Multifásico de Personalidad de Minnesota Forma A. La muestra de este estudio estuvo conformada por 69 adolescentes escolarizados, de 14 a 17 años, tanto hombres como mujeres, de estrato socioeconómico medio y alto de la ciudad de Barranquilla. Los datos se analizaron con el SPSS versión 19.0 para el análisis de estadísticos descriptivos, los resultados arrojaron perfiles válidos y fueron consistentes con investigaciones previas según las que se puede diferenciar población normal de población con indicadores clínicos de personalidad, de importancia; en algunas escalas, sin embargo, los puntajes fueron más altos que los encontrados en otras investigaciones para grupos similares dando cuenta de las variaciones introducidas por el contexto y la dinámica socio-cultural actual, siendo más elevados para las mujeres. Las características clínicas más significativas fueron esquizofrenia, hipomanía, masculinidad-feminidad y psicastenia; mientras que los puntajes de las escalas de contenido más significativos fueron en las de contenido fueron pensamiento extravagante, obsesividad y ansiedad/The objective of this study; it was to characterize the presence of clinical and content personality indicators in adolescent students. Through the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Form A. The sample was formed by 69 adolescents secondary school students, with aged from 14 to 17 years, including men and women, middle and high socioeconomic status, from Barranquilla. The information analyses with SSPSS, 19.0 version for the analysis of descriptive statistics. The results showed valid profiles and they were consistent with previous research than according to the population; can be differentiated normal population and population with clinical indicators of personality. In some scales, although, the scores were higher than it had found in other similar groups, accounting of the variations introduced by the context and actual sociocultural dynamics, scores were higher particularly in women. Clinical characteristics more significant were schizophrenia, hypomania, masculinity-feminity and psychastenia; while scores in content scales were more significant for Bizarre Mentation, Obsessiveness and Anxiety. Correspondencia: [email protected], [email protected],[email protected]
