Personality traits in women with leiomyoma in reproductive age

The aim of the study was to determine personality structure and types at patients with leiomyoma (LM) and establishment of correlations between personal, clinical and biological characteristics associated with LM. The study involved 152 women who accomplished Ammon Ego-structural test; Ajzenk personal questionnaire (EPI). The main group is made up of 101 patients with clinically proven hyperplastic process (myoma, fibromyoma or uterine leiomyoma); control group involved 51 gynecologically healthy woman. It was found that for patients with LM is characterized by significant positive relationship with estimates of deficient narcissism scales and deficient internal Ego-separating. This combination of features of personal development reduces the possibility of regulating their own bodily processes, lead to rejection of the own corporeality, accompanied by ignoring bodily needs. At the same time not detected significant differences between the sample of women with LM from healthy control group by typology (EPI) and personality structure (ISTA). There are proven significant correlation EPI estimates with only one subjective clinical and biological LM characteristic: subjective intensity of pelvic pain was positively associated with unstable extroversion.