[原著］A Study of the Significance of Distress as an Etiological Factor in Psychosomatic Symptoms of High School Students in Okinawa

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High school students (N=902) in Okinawa were asked to participate in a questionnaire survey which was designed to study the factors in psychosomatic symptoms of adolescents. This study focused on mental distress, perceptions of school and home environments, psychosomatic symptoms. and emotional instability. Students with concerns regarding relationships with family, peers, or the opposite sex tended to report more psychosomatic symptoms than students with other distresses. The results indicated that there was a relationship between those students with high distress factor scores and those students finding little pleasure in school and/or home or with emotional instability. Furthermore, there was a significant correlation between distress factors and psychosomatic symptoms in students with little pleasure in school and/or home but there was no significant correlation in students with emotional instability. The findings of this study suggest that distress concerning problems in human relations is an important etiological factor in psychosomatic symptoms of adolescence and that the distress of students with those symptoms is associated with their perception of school and home ; moreover the rating of the seriousness of the distress factor is available to screen those students.