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The psychological profile of young people and tattoo changes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
Adolescence is a developing period on the way of forming the final identity. The core of it is the physical identity, which is the starting point and whose expression is the mirror of its internal being. Tattoos, offered as a part of fashion trend, are accepted by a great number of young people, but on the other side, many people remain distant in relation to them.
Research carried out for determining the specificities of the psycho-social profile of adolescents with tattoos.
Research carried out on 80 adolescents of the age between 16 and 25 years, both sexes…A questionnaire with demographical data was used for the research, PIE (profile index of emotions Plucik), battery of the tests CON4.
Adolescents with a greater number of tattoos (2 or more) manifest a higher aggression, low frustration tolerance and impulsiveness, social disinhibition and they are emotionally without social fears, unpleasantness and shame. Young people with one tattoo don’t have a different profile, but a need of satisfying fashion trends and solving their developing uncertainties and depressiveness.
Young people with tattoos have a specific psycho-social profile, and a great number of tattoos is a screening for indicating behavioral disorders.
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- P01-313
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 315
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association2011
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