Abstract

When comparing the responses of adolescents from vulnerable educational centers to adolescents coming from non-vulnerable educational centers, do their personality patterns? What types of worries seem to be the most relevant? Are they carriers of some clinical syndrome? The results of this research project suggest that the adolescents, both male and female, who begin their high school studies in high vulnerability centers, present some personality patterns exposing them to risk. Their personality characteristics, evaluated with Millon’s Clinical Inventory for Adolescents, expose them to the risk of abandoning their studies and to be subject of violent treatment by others. The adolescents who advance in their studies and remain in formal education present personality characteristics that facilitate their adaptation to a normed system. The students, independently of their age and sex, from high vulnerability centers exhibit high levels of anxiety and depressive feelings.