AN INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS, FAMILIAL STATE, MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY IN DELINQUENT AND VICTIMIZED ADOLESCENTS IN TEHRAN

Delinquency and victimization are two complicated social issues which could be seen in different social environment in different forms. These phenomena are due to personality traits, familial state, mental health and intellectual capacity. This study was done to compare personality traits, familial state, mental health and intellectual capacity between delinquent adolescents and victimized adolescents in Tehran province. The method was causal comparative. Statistical society included delinquent adolescents who were stayed in" Correction and rehabilitation center of Tehran" and victimized one who were referred to legal medicine office of Tehran by the courts for psychological assessment. Of delinquents, 175 were randomly selected as the study group and 85 people who were victimized and referred to psychiatry department of legal medicine as the victimized group. We applied cloninger questionnaire of temperament and character personality traits, Mac master family assessment device (FAD), Goldberg mental health and Tehran-Stanford-Binet intelligence Scale. Results showed that There are meaningful differences between two groups in the dimensions of temperament (persistence, novelty seeking, harm avoidance and reward-dependence), character (self-directedness, cooperativeness and self -transcendence), mental health (anxiety, depression and social functioning) and family specificities (problem solving, affective involvement, affective accompaniment and behavioral control) (P0.05).