[A procedure for assessment "relaxed state" with reference to basic exercises in autogenic training].
The starting point of the present article was the fact that there is practically never a baseline-testing of "relaxability" before a relaxation training starts. This article presents such a procedure, which has been adapted from the "Autogenic Training". The procedure is suitable for application to groups, and consists of an instruction text for 11 exercises and a questionnaire. The psychometric properties of the questionnaire were checked with data of an accidental sample (n = 106) of an orthopedic rehabilitation clinic. In order to check for the stability over time, the procedure was repeated after an interval of two to three weeks. Cronbach's coefficient alpha was .96 and .97 for the first and second testing, respectively. The corrected item-total-correlation varied between .56 and .87 for both testings. The retest-reliability of the score was .75. Factor-analysis yielded two factors for each testing, respectively. For one factor, items mainly referring to the heaviness- and warmthexercises had highest loadings. Items referring to the gerenal relaxation predominantly belonged to the other factor. Consequently, all the analyses point to the stability of the results over time.