TITLE:
A Longitudinal Study of Academic Success and Failure in Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate Students through the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI)
AUTHORS:
Miguel Ángel Broc
KEYWORDS:
Compulsory Secondary Education/Baccalaureate, Academic Success and Failure, Adolescents, MACI, Millon
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.12,
September
1,
2015
ABSTRACT: Aretrospective longitudinal study of a final sample of 311 Spanish students in compulsory secondary education (CSE) and baccalaureate (BAC) between 1 and 6 years after administration of MACI was conducted by analyzing “a posteriori” if they were able to graduate or not in CSE, as well as some form of baccalaureate. The effects of factors such as grade, sex and graduate/urdergraduate were studied over measured variables by MACI, related with personality traits, the concerns expressed and clinical syndromes. Looking retrospectively if emerging patterns of certain personality variables characterizing students as a function of previous factors, statistically significant variables (p