Investigating Personality Disorders of Men Involved in Domestic Abuse in Tabriz

The aim of this study, as an ex post facto descriptive study, was investing-ating personality disorders of involved in domestic abuse in the city of Ta-briz. One hundred men (50 men with wife abuse history and 50 men with no history of wife abuse) participated in this study through convenient samp-ling and completed the Millon Multia-xial Inventory (MCMI-III).MANOVA was used in order to com-pare the mean scores of two groups inthe subscales of MCMI-III. The re-sults showed that there are significant differences between the mean scores of two groups in the subscales of avo-idant personality, depressive persona-lity, and dependent personality from clinical personality pattern subscale, the mean of men wife abuse/non-wife abuse scores in subscales of schi-zotypal personality, paranoid from sever clinical personality pattern sub-scale, the mean of men wife abuse/non wife abuse scores in subscales of dysthymia, drug dependence, post tr-aumatic stress from clinical syndrome subscale, the mean of men wife abu-se/non-wife abuse scores in subscales of thought disorder, major depression disorder, and delusional disorder from sever clinical syndrome subscale. Wi-th regard to higher mean of the wife-abuse men in most of the subscales, results and implications are discussed.