Document Type : Research Paper

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The aim of this research was to compare personality disorder in two groups of runaway and un-runaway girls. For this aim, we selected 35 runaway girls from Behzisty center of Tehran with random sampling that they were equal in four demographic characters: (age, education, occupation and marital status) with 35 un-runaway girls that they were chosen of Tehran's schools. The research instrument was Millon's Personality Disorder Questionnaire. version 3 (MCMI-III) that the coefficient's alpha of scales is between 0/85-0/97. We used T test to analyze data. The result showed that, personality disorder is more than un-runaway girls. Also, psychosocial and borderline personality disorder is more than un-runaway girls. Therefore, the importance of personality disorder and its role in runaway, it can be useful control and preventive interventions.

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