The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine
Original Article

A Preliminary Study on the Conflict

Kyu Wol Yun**, Kun Hoo Rhee***
Corresponding author: Kun Hoo Rhee. Department of Neuropsychiatry, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

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Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

103 Females over 30 years old were interviewed face to face and analyzed in order to determine the intensity and the nature of conflicts according to each psychosexual development. The results were as follows: 1) In the age distribution, majority of patients were distributed between 3rd and 4th decade(70%). 2) Educational level was relatively high and most of them was graduated from university. 3) Socioeconomic status revealed that most of them was thought as a middle class. 4) The highest score of mean of intensity of conflict according to age distri-bution was intensity of conflict in relating to anal personality trait. 5) Comparing with age, the highest score was between 40 and 50 years old. 6) The highest items were dependency, subordination, passivity inthe intensity of conflict in relating to oral personality traitn, cleanliness, emotional constr-ictiveness in anal personality traitn, identificatnion, guilty in the phallic personality trait. 7) As to the conflict relation which occur most frequently, the first is the relation with mother in childhood, and the second is the relation with spouse.