[Psychophysiological aspects of mastalgia. Psychometric studies (author's transl)].

After exclusion of clinical causes for intermittent mastalgia, psychosocial factors should be thought of as a study of 533 women showed: 1. Women with intermittent pains in the breast differed statistically significantly from other women without mastalgia in 8 out of 12 personality characteristics (FPI). 2. Mastalgia occurred more frequently with increasing age, in women without partners, in painful experiences with menarche and menstruation. 3. Women with mastalgia examined their breasts regularly, they were confident that they could feel nodules and went more frequently for medical treatment of their breasts. 4. In mastectomy patients with a history of mastalgia particular attention should be paid to a psycho-social status.