Abstract
The objective of this study was to shed light on the personality traits of child patients on whom we had chosen to perform restraint therapy in the pedodontic clinic of the Nippon Dental University Hospital in Niigata.
For this purpose, Hayashi's quantification theory 3 rd family was used to analyze similarities found in the TakagiSakamoto juvenile personality test. The following conclusions were drawn.
1. Given the origin of the coordinates at the point where the degree of cumulative contribution surpassed 60%, three correlation axes were obtained. Eigenvalues stood at 0.3949 for axis 1,0.1410for axis 2 and 0.0997 for axis 3, and contributory ratios came to 39.5%,14.1% and 10.0%, respectively.
2. Axis 1 was interpreted as the correlation axis denoting the stability or instability of the personality, axis 2 denoting extroversion or introversion, and axis 3 denoting adaptability to the environment.
Based on these findings there was strong evidence of similarity in the categories such as an essential lack of self-control, anaclisis, and constitutional instability. This fact suggested that many of our subjects have these personal traits in common.
