Abstract
We have calculated the total Gamow-Teller strength S± in the even-even sd-shell nuclei making use of the sum rule technique. The ground state wave function is obtained from the shell model calculation in the full (sd)n space. It is shown that the proton-neutron correlation effect causes a considerable amount of reduction of the total Gamow-Teller strength. It is also shown that the reduction of the isospin component in S induced by the configuration mixing becomes more significant with increasing isospin.