The study was conducted from September 1 to November 39, 1984 in order to evalute the psychosomatic health status of an athletes.
The data was obtained from the samples in an athletic high school and an athletic college and their 387 athletes. In addition the 908 students were sampled as control group to compare with an athletes in psycosomatic analysis.
The basic tool employed in the peresent study was the Todai Health Index (THI) with modified CMI and was developed by Tokyo University Research Team of Japan.
The data by an events, length of sports, age, and sex were collected. The results obtained were summarized as follows;
1. The responses of psycosomatic complaints were much lower in subject than in control except the responses of lie scale item in male group and respiratory item, lie scale item, nervousness item in female group.
2. The responses of psycosomatic complaints by sex were much higher in female group than in male group, except the responses of lie scale item and aggressiveness(P .05).
3. The responses of psycosomatic complaints by the length of sports were much high in a team sports than in an individual sports on irregular life item in male group and were much lower in a team sports than in an individual sports on depression item in female group.
4. The responses of psycosomatic complaints by age were that both the male and female group showed an increasing tendency in the digestive item and nervousness item as age increased.
5. The responses of psycosomatic complaints by length of sports were that both the female and male group showed a tendancy of increasing in the all items as length of sports, increased.