Search for: [Abstract = "linical group \(K\). Additionally, 130 females in physiological pregnancy represented a control group \(F\). Psychological tests were administered to the pregnant women\: Type D Personality Scale \- DS14, State and Trait Anxiety Inventory \- STAI, The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. The analysis of these tests determined the intensity of the psychological dimensions\: negative affectivity, social inhibition, anxiety as a state, anxiety as a trait, pregnancy depression and personality identification as either type D or not D. These results were compared in terms of psychological factors in two groups of women\: those with pregnancies complicated with symptoms of preterm labor and those with healthy pregnancies. Afterward, in prospective study the relationship between psychological dimensions and preterm birth was examined, comparing women who gave birth prematurely and in the normal labor time.RESULTS\: Analysis showed statistically significant differences between the group K and group F in the frequency range type D and the severity of all the sub\-dimensions of negative affectivity and two of the three sub\-dimensions of social inhibition. Differences were also observed in terms of the intensity of anxiety as a state and pregnancy depression. The anxiety as a trait did not differentiate the groups. Analysis showed the differences between women who gave birth prematurely and those wh"]
