摘疾患者의 悲觀에 關한 硏究

The Pessimism of the Epileptics

In order to study pessimism in the epileptics, Beck’s hopelessness scale was used for measuring hopelessness. One-hundred normal subjects, 150 epileptic patients and 100 dermatoses patients were selected randomly. The results were as follows; 1. The hopelessness score was highest in the epileptic group, followed by the dermatoses and the normal control group. 2. No difference was observed between both sexes in each group. 3. In epileptic group, the hopelessness score of those without a religion was higher than that of those with a religion. 4. The scores of all 3 factors the “loss of motivation”, the “Feeling about the future” and the “future expectation” were significantly higher in the epileptic group than the others.