Psychosocial aspects of adjustment disorders in women

The aim is to study the psychosocial aspects of adjustment disorders in women.

Materials and methods: 54 women with diagnosed adjustment disorders (F43.2) who applied for advisory support were examined. The analysis of their anamnestic data with the help of a special questionnaire was performed, a clinical and psychopathological examination was conducted. To study various aspects of psychosocial maladjustment in this contingent of patients "The Stress Scale" by T.H. Holmes and R.H. Rahe (1967), "The Scale of Psychosocial Maladjustment" by L.O. Herasymenko, A. M. Skrypnikov and M.Rokeach methodology of studying of the value orientations (Fantalova O.B. modification, 1992) were used.

Results: In 77.8% of cases a mixed type of maladjustment with dominance in the internal structure of factors of family and industrial maladjustment and in 29.6% a family maladjustment monovariant were identified. In most cases, the family and production variants were combined and a mixed variant of maladjustment was diagnosed. At the same time the most serious forms of maladjustment related to the sexual sphere. Analysis of the structure of psychosocial maladjustment of patients with adjustment disorders showedthat the most typical manifestations of this disorder were the following: dissatisfaction with a sense of comfort (75,95 %), dissatisfaction with the psychological climate in thefamily (62,03 %) and with the period of marriage (62,03 %), dissatisfaction with psychological relationships with colleagues (60,76 %) and with the psychological relationship of the spouse (60,76 %) and a high multiplicity of irritation (54,43 %).

Conclusions: The leading factors of maladjustment among the examined women were the stress in subjectively significant areas of activity and the conflictual nature of thedesirability and accessibility of basic life values.