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KMID : 0376619930180020122
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Seoul Journal of Psychiatry
1993 Volume.18 No. 2 p.122 ~ p.132
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Personality and Emotional State in Pregnancy and Early Puerperium
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Abstract
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In this study as a step of procedure to develop a new useful scale for evaluation the emotional state, we investigated the relationship between the emotional state and the personality in women during the trimester pregnancy and early puerperium.
The subjects were 21 married nonpregnants, 21 pregnants and 21 postpartum women, and they completed self-report questionnaires which measured the personality dimensions(Eysenck Personality Questionnaire : EPQ) and changes in psychological
distress
(Symptom Questionnaire : SQ).
Correlations in the married nonpregnant group reveal that the well-being subscales(Relaxed and Contented) are positively related to Extraversion and negatively related to Neuroticism(P<0.05), and Neuroticism is positively related to symptom
subscales(Anxiety, Depression and Anger-Hostility) (P<0.01) In the postpartum women group, the correlation between Neuroticism and Hostility Symptoms is positive and significant(r=0.49, P<0.05).
the split-half reliability of SQ scales was calculated and adjusted using Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient method and Spearman-Brown formula and the adjusted coefficients are 0.86(Depression), 0.80(Somatic), 0.66(Anxiety) and
0.65(Anger-Hostility).
This study demonstrates the significant difference in the level of anxiety between nonpregnant women and pregnant women during the late period of pregnancy, and hostility reported during early puerperal period is associated with neuroticism.
Therefore
we discussed the emotional state and its associating factors in pregnant and postpartum women.
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