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Clinical Observation of Personality Characteristics of Perimenopausal Women with Undefined Complaints
Author(s) -
Ushiroyama Takahisa,
Sugimoto Osamu
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
asia‐oceania journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 0389-2328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.1993.tb00349.x
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , alexithymia , personality , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , personality disorders , psychiatry , medicine , climacteric , rating scale , outpatient clinic , toronto alexithymia scale , psychology , menopause , developmental psychology , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Personality tests, including the Self‐Rating Questionnaire for Depression (SRQ‐D), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Alexithymia Scale (MMPI‐AS), and the Egogram Check List (ECL) were completed by 202 perimenopausal women with undefined complaints. Patients diagnosed as having mental disorders showed SRQ‐D scores of over 16 points. Patients diagnosed as having mental disorders showed MMPI‐AS scores of over 13 points, which can be estimated as alexithymia. Patients experiencing climacteric disorders and the ovarian deficiency syndrome showed slightly higher MMPI‐AS scores than healthy middle‐aged women. The average ECL scores of patients diagnosed as having mental disorders tended to show an N‐shape pattern. The findings suggest that personality tests would be helpful for screening perimenopausal women with mental disorders who are seen at outpatient gynecology clinics.