청소년 정신분열증 환자 모친의 정신병리

Maternal Psychopathology in Adolescent Schizophrenics

To evaluate the family functioning of schizophrenics and the relationship of the mother’s psychopathological characteristics with their children’s schizophrenic morbidity, 30 mothers of schizophrenic adolescent who admitted in the National Na-Ju Mental Hospital and 30 mothers of the mental retardations and 30 mothers of normal controls were tested with M M P I and family adaptability and cohesion evaluation scale-m and family satisfaction scale for family functioning. The results of this study were as follows : 1) Mothers of the schizophrenics were noted to have more broken marriage and marital dissatisfaction than mothers of the mental retardations and normal controls. Prevalence of psychiatric illness in the families of schizophrenic patients were higher than the families of mental retardations and normal controls. 2) Mothers of mental retardations showed higher scores on F, Pa, Pt, Sc, Si scales of the M M P I than mothers of normal controls. 3) In the family adaptability and cohesion evaluation scale-m and family stsatisfaction scale, schizophrenics mothers showed lower scores than mental retards* mothers, mental retards’ mothers showed lower scores than normal control’s mothers in the FACES-III, FS.