Renato Carpentieri, Maria Elena Iannoni, Martina Curto, Mario Biagiarelli, Giulia Listanti, Maria Paola Andraos, Beatrice Mantovani, Carla Farulla, Simona Pelaccia, Giuseppe Grosso, Anna Maria Speranza, Cinzia Sarlatto
Objective: School refusal (SR) in adolescence represents an important risk factor associated with adverse consequences. Although many clinical features of adolescents presenting with SR have been studied, the relationship between SR and personality styles-specifically in the help-seeking population-remains unclear. The present study aimed at investigating differences in personality style, adaptive functioning, and symptomology between Italian help-seeking adolescents who refused (SRa) and did not refuse (non-SRa) to attend school, to provide preliminary evidence of personality patterns in adolescent help-seekers presenting with SR...
February 2022: Clinical Neuropsychiatry