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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1965) 111: 1189-1192. doi: 10.1192/bjp.111.481.1189
© 1965 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Neuroticism in the Early Puerperium

J. J. KEAR-COLWELL B.Sc., D.C.P., A.B.Ps.S.1

1 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Mental Health, University of Aberdeen.

The Neuroticism Scale Questionnaire, a test capable of identifying clinical neurosis with a high degree of accuracy, was administered to a group of mothers during the second to sixth days after the birth of a baby and also to an all female control group of child bearing age. It was found that the mothers were significantly more neurotic than the controls. This increased level of neuroticism was not related to age, social class, length of labour, type of delivery, number of confinements, type of feeding or time from birth to being tested. These findings are discussed, and from this the possibility of a psychophysiological cause for the increased level of neuroticism is suggested.

Submitted on November 2, 1964




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