進行性筋ジストロフイー児の精神医学的研究

第2報 矢田部・ギルフオード性格検査ならびに家庭調査の結果について

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I. The Yatabe-Guilford Personality Inventory was carried out on three groups: 48 patients with progressive muscular dystrophy, 77 patients with other chronic diseases and 343 normal children. They were all elementary and junior high school pupils; the former two groups were in bed school. The PMD group was different significantly from the other two groups in the distribution of the five profile types. The E type had the largest frequency in the former and this tendency was more remarkable in the junior high school children than in the elementary school children. While in the elementary school children the PMD groups showed more intensive introversion than the other two groups, in the junior high school children the PMD groups showed more intensive emotional instability in addition to introversion.
II. Inquiries were made by mail about family circumstances and life histories of 29 PMD children. We had found, in the previous paper, 17 out of 29 as the problem children from results of some clinical psychological tests, psychiatric interviews and behavior observations. From the family inquiries some features were found in the problem children group as compared with the another normal PMD children group; many families of the former live with grandparents, or have some family troubles or some change of them between the time before and after entering the sanatorium. Remarkable trends were also found in the former, that onset of the disease had been noticed earlier but it had taken longer time till the diagnosis of PMD was confirmed, and they had visited the many medical facilities. In their parents attitudes toward child rearing, somewhat bipolar tendencies such as dotage and rejection, strictness and indulgence were founnd.