«Vanishing twin sindrome» as one of the prenatal factors of formation of human personality features

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Abstract

This article is about the vanishing twin syndrome. Scientists have started to speak about this syndrome 20–30 years ago in connection with improvement of methods of supersonic diagnostics of pregnant women. Different modern psychological researches of this subject are analysed in the article. The material will be interesting to the psychologists working in area perinatal of psychology and psychology of the person.

General Information

Keywords: twins, vanishing twin syndrome, personality features.

Journal rubric: Psychology

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Dmitrieva S.S., Panchenko L.L. «Vanishing twin sindrome» as one of the prenatal factors of formation of human personality features. Sociosfera = Sociosphera, 2010. no. 4, pp. 82–85. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

S. S. Dmitrieva, Maritime State University, Vladivostok, Russia

L. L. Panchenko, Maritime State University, Vladivostok, Russia

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