It has been reported that expressed emotion, a measure of family attitude toward psychiatric patients, is closely related to the relapse of schizophrenics. To test the above mentioned relationship, the authors evaluated expressed emotion of schizophrenic， s relatives with six component scales ; critical comment, hostility, dissatisfaction, warmth, emotional overinvolvement and guilt. The subjects consisted of three different groups ; relatives of 15 chronic schizophrenia, relatives of 15 subchronic schizophrenia and relatives of 15 neuroses who were admitted to the department of neuropsychiatry of Chonbuk National University Hospital. The results were as follows ; 1) 3 Groups were significantly different in frequencies of critical comment. In comparison of other expressed emotion, intensity of hostility and warmth also showed significant difference in all of the compared groups (Table 7). 2) Critical comment was positively correlated to hostility (r=0.93). But hostility was negatively related to warmth(r= — 0.49). 3) Comparing the high expressed emotion group with the similar studies of other countries, Korea vs California was significantly different at p<.05 by X2 and British vs California was also different with the statistical significance at p<.01. In addition, the mean frequencies of critical comment was lowest in Korea among them.
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