[Analysis of relationship between personality and emesis gravidarum in pregnant women]

The relationship between personality types and the symptoms of emesis gravidarum in pregnant women was analyzed by means of the Cattel personality test (revised by Nishizono) performed in early and mid pregnancy. Personality types were classified into five from cyclothymia A to schizothymia E. As for emesis, the patients were also classified into three groups, severe (35), mild (41) and none (19), according to the severity and duration of the symptoms. As a result, there was no significant difference between the types and the symptoms, but significant differences were seen in interpersonal attitudes, especially in sociality and dominative propensity, which were constituents of the personality type. The results of the analysis suggested that the patients who revealed disunification tended to express strong emesis as a somatic language. These results therefore indicate the necessity for counseling about personality without simply explaining it as their predisposing constitution, when we encounter strongly emetic pregnant women.