A Study on Anxiety in College Freshmen

불안척도에 의한 대학신입생의 정신건강 평가

The authors studied anxiety, using Zung's Self-Rating Anxiety Scale(SAS), in the subjects of 3,499 male and 1,335 female college freshmen of Yeungnam University. The authors collected the reports of SAS during the periods from January to February, 1986, and applied ANOVA and t-test on anxiety scores in order to compare them between various psychosocial factors, and sexes. The results are as follows: There was significant difference in the mean averages of total anxiety scores between male and female students: male students scored $32.91{\pm}7.70$, female students scored $34.48{\pm}6.00$, (P<0.001). The anxiety scores relating to the items of sweating, apprehension, restlessness, and insommia were relatively higher in both groups. The anxiety scores relating to the items of faintness, mental disintegration, tremors, dizziness were lower in both groups. Thirty-nine male students(1.1%) showed seriously high anxiety scores of 50 or higher, while twenty-one female students(1.6%) showed the same scores. So the authors inferred that the features of anxiety symptoms were much the same in our country, but female showed more various symptoms and higher level of anxiety than males. Male students attending in pharmacy showed higher level of anxiety scores(P<0.01). There was a strong tendency toward higher anxiety scores in the students who were dissatisfied with their home atmosphere, colleges, department and familiarity of parents, and those who had pessimistic views of self image in the past, present, or future, in both groups(P<0.001).

영남대학교 신입생 4834명(남학생 : 3499명, 여학생 : 1335)을 대상으로 1986년 1월부터 1986년 2월까지 Zung의 자가평가불안척도를 사용하여 불안을 측정한 결과는 다음과 같다. 불안성적의 평균점수는 남학생이 $32.91{\pm}5.70$, 여학생이 $34.48{\pm}6.00$으로 여학생이 유의하게 높은 불안성적(P<0.001)을 보였다. 불안의 항목별 성적은 남녀 공통적으로 발한, 우려, 불면, 안절부절의 순서로 높았으며 졸도감, 진전, 현훈, 정신적붕괴 등은 낮았다. 불안성적 분포는 남학생의 경우 50점 이상인 경우가 1.1%, 여학생의 경우 1.6%로 여학생에서 고득점자의 비율이 약간 높았다. 남녀 모두 가정환경(P<0.001>, 자신의 소속학과(P<0.001)나 대학(P<0.001)에 불만이 있는 경우, 과거 (P<0.001), 현재(P<0.001) 및 미래(P<0.001)의 자아상이 비판적인 경우, 부모와의 친숙도에 대해서 불만(P<0.001)인 경우에 불안 성적이 높았다.