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The materials in this study were 101 adult in-patients, nursing students and their families. The inpatients were selected in C university hospital and H university hospital. Nursing students and their families were all healthy, their number was 72, considered as normal control group. we divided the anxiety into two categories, one was affective symptom and the other was somatic symptom. We measured the degree of anxiety by means of self rating anxiety scale(SAS) which Zung designed, was translated into Korean and relied upon property with reliance in the "Korean institute of problems in youth." Comparative study of the degree of anxiety was performed with general environmental factors such as sex, age, religion, educational levels and economic states. The results were analyzed by T-test following: 1. The degrees of anxiety in patients were definitely higher then normal subjects(P<0.05). 2. The degrees of affective anxiety in patients equivocally higher than normal subjects, but those were not significant statistically(P=0.0592). 3. The degrees of somatic anxiety in patients were equivocally higher than normal subjects(P<0.05). 4. Between anxiety and sex, the statistical correlation was not significant(P>0.05). 5. Between anxiety and age, the statistical correlation was not significant(P>0.05). 6. The degree of anxiety in patients of Catholian, other Christian and Buddist was lower than those of other religions(P<0.05). 7. Comparing the high educated groups with whole group, the degree of anxiety in educated patients was higher than that of whole group, but insignificant statistically(P=0.059). 8. The degree of anxiety in higher economic states was lower than that in lower economic states statistically(P<0.05). Conclusively, somatic and affective anxiety were higher in-patients, but somatic one is much higher than affective one. General environmental factors affecting anxiety levels were religion, educational levels and economic states. Therefore, nurses should examine the levels of anxiety in-patients management and plan to lull their anxiety in general nursing intervention.
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