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A Study on the Life Stress Effects on Psychiatric Symptoms and Physical Condition in Normal Subjects

In this study the authors tried to find out the amount of life stress and it’ s effects on psychiatric symptoms and physical condition in physically healthy subjects who checked their physical health at Koryo General Hosptial from June 1 to Oct. 31 1987. 1) The amount of life stress was not significantly correlated with their socioeconomic characteristics. 2) Psychiatric symptoms such as somatization, obsession-compulsion, depression, anxiety, hostility and psychoticism, were more severe in the female group than the male group(P〈0.01). 3) The subjects in their the 50s, the less educated and the service workers suffered more from psychiatric difficulties than the groups of the other age, the higher educated and the other occupations. 4) The psychiatric symptoms except paranoia were higher in the group with the income of less than 500,000 won a month (P<0.01) and the psychiatric symptoms such as somatization, obsessioncompulsion, depression(P〈0.01), interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety and phobic anxiety(P〈0.05) were also higher in the group who were unsatisfied with their economic status. 5) Higher the life stress became, the psychiatric symptoms such as somatization, obsession-compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity and depression, and the serum level of triglyceride and T4 were also increased (P〈0.05). 6) From the above finding that the amount of life change unit and the psychiatric symptoms were higher in the 5th decade and there were positive relationship among life stress, psychiatric symptoms, serum trigliceride and T4, the authors speculate that this age group might be particularly vulnerable to suffer from atherosclerosis or coronary heart disease than the other age groups.