[Psychometric studies in pregnant women (comparative study of women with and without pregnancy complications)].

Under psychosomatic aspects pregnancy complications are the result of an insufficient adaptation of a women with regard to an occurred pregnancy. This paper investigates, if there are existing differences between women with an uncomplicated course of pregnancy (n = 91) and those whose pregnancy resulted in complications and a higher risk for the delivery with regard to their personality profile, variables of their partnership and their adjustment, anxieties concerning the delivery and anamnestic datas. The results of this investigation show, that the reasons for disturbances of the adaptation processes of pregnancy are primarily based on the personality structure of the pregnant women.