The author has attempted to study the personality problems of the adolescence of boy’s camp by utilizing the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory(MMPI).
One hundred and twenty male adolescents of boy’s camp, and one thousand and two hundred normal male students aged between 13 through 19 were selected at random for this study.
T-score, anxiety index, internalized ratio, active hostility index, and passive aggressive index based on T-score of the MMPI are summarized as follow.
1) In the T-score of the clinical scales, the T-score of the scales in the boy’s camp group is comparatively higher than that in the normal student group. In the normal student group, the psychotic and behavioral disorder scales in the younger group is higher in comparison with that in the elder group. The result of the MMPI indicates higher value of standard deviation in the normal student group, and highest value in the elder group.
2) The value of anxiety index is higher in the boy’s camp group than in the normal student group. In the normal student group, the elder group has higher value than the younger group. There shows higher value of the standard deviation in the normal student group, and highest value in the elder group.
3) The value of internalized ratio is higher in the normal student group, and it was discovered that the elder the group is the higher the value. The higher value of the standard deviation in the normal student group was discovered and so was in the elder student group.
4) The value of the active hostility index is higher in the boy’s camp group, and the same is true in the test of the younger group in the normal student group. There shows a higher value of the standard deviation in the normal student group, and also highest in the elder student group.
5) The value of the passive aggressive index is higher in the normal student, and is particularly highest in the elder student group. There shows a highest value of the standard deviation in the boy’s camp group, and also higher in the younger group of the normal student.
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