Psychological Characteristics of the Personality of Adolescents with Aberrant Behavior

The problem of abnormal personality development in adolescents and of their aberrant behavior has been often examined [1-4]. The psycho-pathological premises of unlawful behavior (the role of deviations from the mentally normal, character accentuation, etc.) have been analyzed in detail, and the social-psychological conditions of disorders in the development of the adolescent personality have been studied (the role of various distinctive features in interactions between an adolescent and adults and peers). However, there are still no clear ideas about the system of psychological mechanisms of such abnormal personality development in adolescents. In particular, insufficient attention has been paid to ideas about possible primary defects in personality development, the degree of influence of these defects on other personality traits, the nature and types of relations forming between various personality characteristics and the personality complexes formed as a result. The lack of sufficient clarity regarding...