PREDICTION OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN OBLIGATORY COMPULSORY EDUCATION AND BACCALAUREATE STUDENTS THROUGH THE MILLON ADOLESCENT CLINICAL INVENTORY

Abstract

The progressive increase of the conflicting in the classrooms, the behavior problems among students and teachers and the increasing appearance of personality disorders, added to a bigger academic failure in some groups of adolescents joined to social and familiar dysfunctions have done posed us, from a clinical and psychopatological perspective, a research basically correlational multivariable with binary logistic regression techniques, intending to found initial relationships between personality and educational (achievement) variables. About 380 students of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO – 12 to 16, and Baccalaureate –16 to 19 years) were administered the Millon Adolescents Clinical Inventory (and other materials) as well as academic performance measures.