title: [Psychological factors and blood pressure in children. Various results using Zazzo's Bestiary Test].
abstract: The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationships between psychological characteristics and blood pressure. Through animal metaphor R. Zazzo's Bestiary test indicates the child's basic psychological position and his way of coping with his personal conflicts. The test was administered to 766 children between the ages of 4-10 years. The links between diastolic and systolic blood pressure values, and the children's responses to the test were established by several discriminant analyses. A correspondence-analysis threw light on the psychological meaning of these relationships by indicating in hypertensive children a tendency towards perceiving human relationships as aggressive, especially between males and females.
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011386:Projective Techniques; D002666:Psychology, Child
vernacular_title: Facteurs psychologiques et pression artérielle chez l'enfant. Quelques résultats avec le test du Bestiaire de Zazzo.