During alerts announcing general or air-raid warnings, it was noticed that die reactions of certain categories of patients and personnel in the Psychiatric Hospital Ugljan, differed in relation to the psychodynamic structure of die group. The aim of this investigation was to find out the level of anxiety in the reactions of these categories of people in the fore-mentioned stress situations. By the use of a questionnaire STAI (X-l, X-2) the level of die state and the trait of anxiety were assessed during the period when there was no alarm. Two days later, because of approaching enemy aircraft, an air-raid alarm was sounded, and the state of anxiety (X-l) was assessed again (self- assessment, assessment by observers) but in a different situation in the air-raid shelter. This investigation confirmed some differences in affective reactions of certain groups towards different entities. It was found that alcoholic patients and the personnel showed a significant increase in anxiety during the alarm, while this was not noticed in schizophrenic patients.
