Abstract
Forty psychosomatic patients were evaluated for STAI (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) and ECL (Egogram Check List) before and after psychosomatic therapy, and the relation between their clinical courses and changes of the scores of STAI and Egogram were analyzed. The results were as follows : 1) The score of state anxiety (A-State) was significantly decreased in the patients who showed an improvement (the Improved), but did not change in the patients who showed no change or an aggravation (the Unchanged or Aggravated) after the therapy.2) The score of trait anxiety (A-Trait) was not changed in the Improved, but significantly increased in the Unchanged or Aggravated after the therapy.3) In patients with depression or depressive state, state and trait anxiety were higher than those of others with anxiety and tension or conversion reaction both before and after the therapy.4) The score of "Adult" in Egogram significantly increased in the Improved, while it decreased in the Unchanged or Aggravated after the therapy.5) There was negative correlation between changes in the scores of state anxiety and "Nurturing Parent" and "Adult".6) There was also negative correlation between changes in the scores of trait anxiety and "Nurturing Parent" and "Free Child".From these findings, we concluded : 1) A-State was proved to be a sensitive indicator of the level of transitory anxiety and was very useful to measure changes of an anxiety by the psychosomatic therapy.2) A-Trait was proved to be very useful to evaluate an individual predisposition to an anxiety.