[Psychosomatic aspects of emesis gravidarum: perceptual and attitudinal patterns of women during early pregnancy].
Eighty-one pregnant women in early pregnancy were examined with psychological tests: Semantic Differential about the perception of bearing a child and an adjusted Fishbein & Ajzen (1975) questionnaire according to perceptional and attitudinal styles related to the perceived consequences of the pregnancy. Women with Emesis Gravidarum in this population differ significantly from women without vomiting in early pregnancy in the following areas: 1. Pregnancy and its consequent life-changes are seen more positively. 2. Additional analysis shows that at the same time more frightening events are expected (in the sense, that positively evaluated events will not come true or negatively evaluated events will come true). 3. Inconsistent attitudes were observed frequently. The above mentioned characteristics allow the interpretation, that events are perceived more unrealistically in women with Emesis Gravidarum. We can conclude that coping with these life-events is more difficult for them. One possibility to express these existing conflicts is the somatic symptom of vomiting.
D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006939:Hyperemesis Gravidarum / Q000523:psychology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011261:Pregnancy Trimester, First; D012659:Semantic Differential; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Zur Psychosomatik der Emesis Gravidarum: Wahrnehmungs- und Einstellungs-muster von Frauen in der Frühschwangerschaft.