摘要：The study was carried through aiming at to verify the utility of the Simon’s Chromatic Style Test to detect correlations between the evaluation of adaptive effectiveness and affective states of nine women with the diagnosis of essential hypertension, whose group was compared with a group of six women, mothers of pupils of first degree of a public school, not suffering from essential hypertension or any psychosomatic complaints. In this investigation, demographic data of the participants were obtained with preventive interviews; affective and relational adaptiveness, obtained with Simon’s AODS - Adaptive Operationalized Diagnosis Scale; and were compared with Simon’s Chromatic Style Test, both according to the Simon’s Adaptation Theory. The conclusion suggests, according to the adaptive efficacy, that patients with essential hypertension were, more compromised and impaired than the mothers of the control group. This adaptive inefficacy had, mainly, to the little or very little adequacy found in the Affective-Relational and Organic adaptive sectors. With regard to the affection, the patients with hypertension showed, as much the mothers of control group, yearnings and necessities for more rewarding interpersonal contacts. However, as their mechanisms of emotional control were of more primitive nature - negation and repression, they did not express adequately their yearnings and necessities, as the mothers of the control group really do it. Than, mothers with hypertension did not exert an adjusted control on their emotions. Therefore, in order to preserve their little consistent emotional balance, the patients with essential hypertension remained distant of their affective stimulations, affective frustrations, discontents, and conflicts caused them, which contributed for the adaptive inefficacy and presented essential hypertension. The results of the Simon’s Chromatic Style Test pointed to an association with affective data and patients’ inhibitions, and prescribing its application in systematic research with essential hypertension challenges, with an wider sample size.
