Abstract
The purpose of this study is to observe the relation between the change of the attitude of the students in a nursing college towards mental disorderd and anxiety on the lecture "Psychiatric Nursing Practice". We researched the 76 students with questionnaire. We investigated the answer by the factor analysis. And we observe the relation between the factor scores and anxiety score showed by STAI and C.A.S. test. The results were as follows.
1. We obtained 6 factors by the factor analysis, and we named them "anxiety and detestation factor", "understanding and accepting factor, "social alienation factor", "denial factor", "affirmation factor", and "closing factor". We observe the change of the factor, reducing "anxiety and detestation factor" and increasing "affirmation factor" after practice.
2. The change of the attitude of the students in a nursing college towards mental disorderd related to the anxiety.
3. The students who had the affirmative attitude showed low score of the state anxiety after practice.
4. The students who had ego weakness showed the attitude of "anxiety and detestation factor" and "denial factor". And the students who had suspiciousness showed the attitude of "closing factor" after practice.
5. The students who had suspiciousness showed high score of the state anxiety after practice.
