Abstract
It is postulated that mothers have some effect on dentists during the treatment of their children. Therefore, we examined several reports demonstrating that mothers have an effect on dentists during the treatment of their children. It was said that the individual personalities of the dentists were related principally to their feeling psychological stress, and it became increasingly apparent that there were important individual differences in response to stress. The strength, duration, and timing of the stresser and the specific makeup of the individual determine how he/she reacts to the stresser to produce a particular stress response. Accordingly, with 23 dentists from the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Hiroshima University School of Dentistry as subjects, we analyzed the effect of mothers on dentists during the treatment of their children using the Psychological Stress Response Scale and YG (Yatabe-Gilford Character test) Personality Test. We examined the results by analyzing the relationship between the personalities of the dentists and their psychological stress scores. The findings were as follows:
1. As for personality types, the D-type (director type) accounted for the largest percentage of dentists 34.8%, while of the 26.1% were C-type (calm type),17.4% of the A-type (average type),13.0% of the B-type (blast type), and 8.7% of the E-type (escape type).
2. It was found that there was a significant correlation between the psycholigical stress score and the four scales that measured emotional stability (depression, cyclic tendency, inferiority feelings, nervousness)within the 12 scale YG personality test. No significant correlations were found with the three scales that measured social adaptability (lack of objectivity, lack of cooperativeness, lack of agreeableness), and the five scales that measured social direction (general activity, rhathymia, thinking extraversion, ascendance, social extraversion).
These results suggest that, concerning the relationship between stress effected by mothers on dentists during treatment of their children and the character of the dentists as measured by the YG Personality Test, the scales used to measure emotional stability were highly relevant while the scales used to measure social adaptability and social direction were not.
