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.

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The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the self-care behavior of myocardial infarction patients (smoking, drinking, cholesterol content of diet, salt content of diet, physical exercise, and anger and irritation) and the type A score of Bortner's adult test. One hundred and two patients with myocardial infarction, aged 30-65 and 65-80 years, participated in the study.
This study used a structured questionnaire and interview format.
The findings were as follows:
1. The type A score of the myocardial infarction patients aged 30-65 on the good self-care behavior was higher than the score of the patients aged 65-80 years on all the self-care behaviors of myocardial infarction patients. On the contrary, the type A score of the myocardial infarction patients aged 65-80 was higher than the score of the patients aged 30-65 years on the middle self-care behavior.
2. The type A score of the myocardial infarction patients aged 30-65 was higher than the score of the patients aged 65-80 years on the good self-care behavior of smoking. On the contrary, the type A score of the myocardial infarction patients aged 65-80 was higher than the score of the patients aged 30-65 years on the middle and low self-care behaviors.
3. The type A score of the myocardial infarction patients aged 30-65 was higher than the score of the patients aged 65-80 years on drinking.
4. The type A score of the myocardial infarction patients aged 30-65 was higher than the score of the patients aged 65-80 years on cholesterol and salt content of diet.
5. The type A score of the myocardial infarction patients aged 30-65 was higher than the score of the patients aged 65-80 years on physical exercise. In addition, the type A score of the myocardial infarction patients on the low self-care behavior was higher than the score of the good self-care behavior.
6. The type A score of the myocardial infarction patients aged 30-65 was higher than the score of the patients aged 65-80 years on anger and irritation. In addition, the type A score of the myocardial infarction patients on the low self-care behavior was higher than the score of the good self-care behavior.

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