E-ISSN : 2733-4538
The purpose of this study was to confirm differcences the degree of anxiety and factorial structure of Korean Beck Anxiety Inventory(BAI) in various groups which was developed by Beck(1988) originally to measure the degree of anxiety. Korean BAI was administrated to 130 inpatients and 224 non-patients. The results revealed that the means on BAI score are significantly different in patients and nonpatient, in various psychiatric types and in sex. but are not significantly different in age. The factorial strucre is same in patient group and non-patient group. These results suggest the necessity of cautious interpretations according to the type of psychiatric disorder, sex, and age.