[The significance of the psychological characteristics of personality for the prevention of neuropsychic disorders in metallurgists].

Psychological aspects were studied in 601 male workers of 18 main metallurgical professions using the BVNK method developed at the Department of Clinical Psychology (Berlin Humboldt University). The most significant changes showing abnormalities were found in steel-founders and professions directly related to steel-making. They showed disorders of psychological functions and a tendency to unspecific disturbances of self-feeling. The main psychohygienic and psychoprophylactic measures should be carried out with professional groups working in conditions of maximum high temperatures.