Abstract
This study considers various factors, such as personality, psychological distress, emotional problems, emotional support, clinical and sociodemographic characteristics, of women who asked for an abortion and compares them with psychological distress 3 months after the abortion. Using factorial analysis of a personality test (Eysenk Personality Inventory) and a clustering method that utilized the factorial scores, it was possible to identify three groups which had different personality characteristics, namely: neurotic, extravert and extravert—neurotic. The three groups proved to be significantly different in certain sociodemographic and social support characteristics and also in the degree of psychological distress (symptom checklist; SCL 90) before and after abortion. Following the abortion, estimation of psychological distress showed that the extravert group, with low distress initially, exhibited an improvement in global severity index (GSI), anxiety, somatization and depression. The neurotic group, wh...
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