Forty-three psychiatric patients rated their self and ideal concepts on adjective scales, the discrepancy between these two ratings being used as an index of self-acceptance. Significant negative relationships were found on the MMPI between self-acceptance and the F, Hs, D, Pa, Pt, Sc, and Si scales. A significant positive relationship was found between self-acceptance and the K scale. These results replicated a similar study among college students in several respects. Among the college students "the low self-accepters were found to have D and Pt as their first or second highest scores significantly more frequently than high self-accepters.