女子青年に診ける性徴の一位相と性格との関聯に関する研究

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This paper is a report on the study of the relation between personality and individual differences in menstruation which are observed in the length and the oscillation of its duration and its periodic time, and the conditon of physical impediment of menstruation.
The research and experiment were made at the period, from April, 1952 to October, 1952.
The number of subjects are 665-lower secondary school girls, upper secondary school girls, undergraduate univ. girls, and factory girls.
The research in menstruation was done through questionnaires for six months continuously and the research in personality was, done by using Uchida's Kraepelin numeral addition test and Okabe and Awaji's emotional stability test. Moreover the author observed the emotional tone of menstruation through questionnaires. Then he examined the relation between the traits based upon the results of these research and experiment.
The abstract of the result is as follows.
1) The author found that there were fairly conspicuous individual differences in the traits of menstruation, especially in the degree of the oscillation of the duration and the periodic time. The subjects could be divided into three groups-high (long), middle, low (short)-on the statistical treatment of the traits of menstruation, or into two groups on the view of the existence of the cohditions of physical impediment. Then the author studied the character of the subjects in each group.
2) The ‘high’ group of the oscillation of the duration and the periodic time and the group accompanied with the physical impediment indicated higher index about the effect of recess by Uchida's Kraepelin numeral addition test than the other groups, but they showed the fairly more abnormality about. the working curve and the degree of the oscillation of numeral addition than other groups.
3) As the result of Okabe and Awaji's emotional stability test, the ‘long’ group of the duration of menstruation, the ‘high’ group of the oscillation in the duration and the periodic item, and the group accompanied with the physical impediment showed more emotional instability than the other groups.
4) According to the result of questionnaires about emotional tone of menstruation, many of the ‘short’ group of duration, of the ‘low’ group of oscillation, and of the group without the physical impediment replied that they were not nervous at menstruation. But many of the ‘long’ group of the duration, of the ‘high’ group of the oscillation, and of the group with the impediment showed fairly conspicuous negative emotions.
In a few words, it may be said that the individual traits of menstruation has Its effect on personality.