Individual attitude to disease was evaluated in 249 individuals with marginal arterial hypertension and patients with essential hypertension (EH). Anxiety, hypochondriac and neurasthenic types of response to raised arterial blood pressure were predominant. Hypertensive patients, prone to crises, mostly showed anxiety and neurasthenic response to arterial hypertension, while anosognosic response was less common, as compared to people with occasional hypertensive crises. In hypertensive males, as opposed to females, anosognosic perception of the disease prevailed, while the cardiophobic variant was less common.