The prediction power of personality factors and resilience aspects in discriminating the minor psychiatric patients from the normal group

This study compares the personality types and psychological resilience between minor psychiatric patients and normal population. With regard to this goal, the predictor power of aspects of resilience and the personality factors was verified, in discriminating the metal patients from the normal group. The Participants of the study were 60 minor psychiatric patients selected from the patients referred to home health care centers Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province in 2012 and 60 normal subjects that were matched with the patients based on age, gender and level of education variables. The Big Five Inventory (BFI) and Adult Resilience Scale (ARS) were administrated individually on all participants. The multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) used to compare the groups in measured variables and to determine discriminant power of the variables discriminant analysis (DA) method was applied, as a post hoc comparison test. Results of MANOVA indicated a significant difference between two groups in the variables (wilks' lambda.028=, F(9,110)=423.814, P<0.001) and findings of DA showed that the resilience aspects in comparison to the personality factors have higher prediction power in distinguishing the psychiatric patients from normal group.