[Psychoemotional disorders in those working with epoxy compounds]

Psychoemotional status was studied in 125 female workers 21 to 50 years old having been exposed to epoxide resins and their compounds for 5 to 25 years. We undertook to carry out multifactor questionnaire survey together with pathopsychological testing, and determining levels of personal constitutional and reactive anxiety. Occupation-related neurotic disorders (neurasthenic-, obsessive and phobic-, and, to a lesser extent, hysterical type manifestations) were found out to develop during the stage of prenosologic forms against the background of high level of both constitutional and reactive anxiety. It is psychoconstitutional traits of workers being predisposing factors for the disorders in question that affect the epoxide-related origination and development of psychoemotional derangement. The following traits can be regarded as predisposing factors for derangement: excitability, bias towards anxiety, deestiming, demonstrable behaviour.