Resumen

SALAMANCA CAMARGO, Yenny; VEGA MORALES, Astrid Magaly  y  NINO LEON, Sandra Lorena. Relation between Pathological Personality Patterns and Anxiety in Psychology Students. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2014, vol.31, n.3, pp.435-454. ISSN 2011-7485.  https://doi.org/10.14482/psdc.31.3.5457.

This articule presents the results of a nonexperimental correlational study, which objective was to determine the relationship between pathological personality patterns and state-trait anxiety in a group of 120 psychology students at a university in Colombia, with ages between 18 and 40 years and schooling levels between first and tenth semester. The instruments used were the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Spearman correlation coefficient was calculated, indicating a positive correlation between the presence of aggressive personality patterns (sadistic), borderline and dysthymic, and high scores on trait anxiety.

Palabras clave : personality; personality pathology; anxiety; psychology; students.

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