[Differentiation factors concerning the declaration of symptoms (author's transl)]

A survey has been carried out (in suburbs of Paris) on the cultural factors of differentiation concerning the opinions and the attitudes of people towards health and disease; it was an opportunity to ask questions about present and old symptoms felt by the person who had answered. The main points which result from a multivariate analysis, carried out in order to study the relation between the symptoms' declaration and the selected and sampling variables, are the following: --There is a privileged relation between the female sex and everything affecting diseases and health, through the trend of declaring symptoms. --Besides, the trend of declaring symptoms is generally on a par with the steady existence of psychological symptoms. --For the same number of symptoms declared, these are the youngest and the most educated and, especially, those who accept the idea that a "mental disorder" can happen to them, who declare the highest number of psychological symptoms and, therefore, less organic symptoms. Four main factors are arising: the sex, the social class which some one belongs, individual psychological factors and the personal health status. An analysis is proposed, concerning the main relations which become obvious.