Antisocial personality and its relationship to cohesion and family adaptability in adolescent

Abstract

The present study aims to detect antisocial personality and it's relation with cohesion and family adaptability according to Olson's circumplex model for adolescents. The samples used in this study are 80 adolescents from different high school in Blida state, the study relied on the descriptive approach, two tests were applied: Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ-4+) by Hyler,and David Olson's cohesion and family adaptability scale. The result of this study has concluded that there is a statistically significant correlation between anti-social personality and both cohesion and family adaptability, which means the higher family cohesion and adaptability are, the lower the chances of anti social personality forming get.