To ascertain whether psychiatric outpatients can be classified into di
stinct types according to their self-reported symptoms of anxiety, the
Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was administered to 655 outpatients diag
nosed with DSM-III-R anxiety disorders. Cluster analysis identified th
ree internally consistent subscales representing subjective, somatic,
and panic symptoms. Further analysis revealed six types of outpatients
reflecting below average, panic-subjective, low subjective, low somat
ic-panic, above average, and subjective-somatic anxiety. The types wer
e differentiated with respect to age, primary diagnosis, clinically ra
ted anxiety, and both self-reported and clinically rated depression.