Abstract
In order to deal with juvenile patients properly, pedodontists are required to have a better knowledge about them in terms of personality, mother-child relationships and home environment. To this end, we selected pertinent factors from the personal and social, in addition to medical, histories taken when they visited our clinic for the first time, and performed a multivariate analysis by means of the quantification theory group III to examine similarities and differences between factors and the meanings of each factor.
1. The psychological factors were quite distinct in every category in light of the Takagi-Sakamoto juvenile personality test. This fact suggests that the test is highly dependable for assessing the personality of child subjects.
2. Bases on the analysis of psychological factors, the correlation axis representing emotional stability (or instability) and the correlation axis for introvert (or extravert) personality could be set.
3. The factors associated with mother-child relationships could be categorized clearly in accordance with the Yatabe-Guilford personality inventory. Thus, these factors were proved to be reliable for assessing the weight of mother-related factors in the child's personality.
4. Using the analysis of mother-related factors, a correlogram could be plotted with one axis representing positivism and the other axis for stabillity.
5. Among the factors associated with the environment in which the children were brought up, such factors as age, the number of brothers and sisters and the order of birth were clearly distinguishable.
6. Based on the analysis of the above-mentioned siblings and age, correlation curve was plotted.
