comparison of personality characteristics in runaway and ordinary single and married females in Isfahan

The present research purpose was to draw a comparison between the runaway married and unmarried females. Accordingly, 35 runaway girls and women who werent psychotic with average intelligence and having finished the primary education were selected among from those who had been referred to Isfahan social emergency centers by the police authorities and the judiciary. They were then compared with the control group which was formed of 35 female students as control group. The results demonstrated that two groups were significantly different with regard to interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, psychosis paranoid ideation and total score in SCL-90-R inventory.