범불안장애와 공황장애의 임상적 비교 고찰

A Clinical Comparison between the Generalized Anxiety Disorder and the Panic Disorder

In order to delineate the newly classified diagnostic entities of the generalized anxiety disorder and the panic disorder in DSM-III, several clinical parameters were compared between the two groups. The subjects studied were 33 patients with the generalized anxiety disorder and 20 of the panic disorder diagnosed using DSM-III criteria. The results were as follows: In comparison with the patients with the panic disrdeJ, those with the generalized anxiety disorder 1) were more frequent in female with lower educational background and probably in the lower social classes, 2) took more insidious onset in younger ages ancf had longer duratin of illness, 3) revealed more frequently the secondary depression and ideational contents of psychological than physical disasters, 4) and showed higher scores of interpersonal sensitivity and hostility of the Symptom Checklist- 90R and of trait anxiety of the spielberger’s State-Trait Anxiety Inventary.