Evaluación de los rasgos de personalidad en varones internados en Centros de Adicciones

Abstract

This investigation had as a fundamental purpose to describe the personality traits present in patients that have been hospitalized in rehabilitation clinics for substance abuse or dependence, besides to establish the presence of the clinical syndromes and measure them in our study. It was performed one exploratory and descriptive research with a quantitative approach, for which was applied the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Invetory (MCMI-III), which is used to evaluate 11 clinical personality patterns, 3 scales of severe personality pathology and 10 clinical syndromes. This study was realized whit 50 men in rehabilitation, 10 of which were excluded because they not fulfil the inclusion criteria. The results showed changes in personality, presenting a higher prevalence of antisocial personality disorder, followed by the narcissistic and paranoid disorders respectively. Meanwhile, personality traits corresponded to higher prevalence of antisocial, narcissistic and paranoid traits.