キーパンチャーおよびテレタイピストの精神身体医学的観察 : 第1報 寒冷皮膚温反射を中心に

Abstract

Some Psychosomatic examinations, i.e. cold-water bath test, simplified Cornel Medical Index (C.M.I.) and Manifest Anxiety Scale (M.A.S.), were made on 8 key-punchers, 8 teletypists and 6 business-workers. All these subjects were healthy females. Temperature of the water in the cold-water bath was maintained at 0s4°C. The left hand was immersed in this cold-water for 30 seconds, and then the process of return to the normal level of the skin temperature was observed at 30-second intervals on the palmal side of the left middle finger by a thermister thermometer. The results were as follows; 1) In the business-worker group, the skin temperature lowered after the immersion returned rapidly to the original level. 2) In the key-punchers and the teletypists, the skin temperature lowered after the immersion returned slowly to the former level before work, but, after the work it returned rapidly in most of them. However, in some of them, the skin temperature returned slowly both before and after the work. 3) The key-punchers and the teletypists whose skin temperatures returned slowly both before and after the work had more complaints in C.M.I. and more anxious tendency on M.A.S. than the other.