Personality traits of juvenile delinquents suffering from different forms of substance dependence (gender aspect)

200. 155 male (mean age 17,1 ±0,9 years) and 110 female adolescents (mean age 17±0,73 years) abusing psychoactive substance, serving their sentence at educational colonies have been studied. It has been revealed that male adolescents commit delinquencies against life and health in 34,7 % of cases and female ones - in 25,5 %. 17 % of male and only 1,8 % of female adolescents have begun substance use being younger than 10 years. Combined substance use in male adolescents has been revealed in 36,7 % of cases, and in female ones - in 50,9 %. Adolescents have been educated in the adverse social environment with low material level and high level of alcoholization of the parents. Study of personality traits has shown heightened anxiety, need for attention and demonstrativeness in male adolescents. Female adolescents were characterized by need for contacts, somatization of anxiety, were more prone to hypochondriac, depressive reactions. Study of clinical and experimental-psychological correlations has shown that alcoholization of the mother with high level of likelihood is associated with psychopathization of male adolescents. High level of psy-chopathization in adolescents also predetermined early onset of substance use, use of harder drugs influenced on heightening of lying and lowering of activity of male adolescents and duration of use on development of psychopath-like and hysteroid behavior. Thus, carried out investigation has allowed revealing gender traits of the personality of juvenile delinquents allowing broadening the understanding of mechanisms determining realization of addictive behavior.