By means of the Cornell Index and the Minnesota T-S-E administered to seventy-five students, the hypothesis (currently subscribed to on the basis of clinical practice) that the repression of emotion may manifest itself in a tendency to somatic symptoms is substantiated. The test result also suggests that repression of affect is more likely to eventuate in somatic complaints than in psychic symptoms or behavior disorders. It also supports the idea that the character structure as a whole is important in psychosomatic illness.